American physicist and scientific editor (1913–2004)
Philip Abelson
Philip Abelson
Born
April 27, 1913
Tacoma, Washington, United States
Died
August 1, 2004 (aged 91)
Bethesda, Maryland, United States
Nationality
American
Alma mater
Washington State University University of California, Berkeley
Known for
Discovery of neptunium, isotope separation techniques
Awards
Kalinga Prize (1972) National Medal of Science (1987) Public Welfare Medal (1992) Vannevar Bush Award (1996)
Scientific career
Fields
Nuclear physics
Philip Hauge Abelson (April 27, 1913 – August 1, 2004) was an American physicist, scientific editor and science writer. Trained as a nuclear physicist, he co-discovered the element neptunium, worked on isotope separation in the Manhattan Project, and wrote the first study of nuclear marine propulsion for submarines. He later worked on a broad range of scientific topics and related public policy, including organic geochemistry, paleobiology and energy policy.
Abelson served as editor-in-chief of the journal Science from 1962–84, president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington from 1971–78, and president of the American Geophysical Union from 1972-74. His frequent editorials in Science, both during and after his term as editor, became known for their strident and thought-provoking views. A collection of 100 of his editorials was published as a book, entitled Enough of Pessimism. He may have been the original source of the phrase 'extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence'.
Philip Hauge Abelson (April 27, 1913 – August 1, 2004) was an American physicist, scientific editor and science writer. Trained as a nuclear physicist...
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ancient proteomes. Abelson, Hare and Hoering were leading the studies of ancient proteins between the 1950s and the early 1970s. Abelson was directing the...
The AAAS Philip Hauge Abelson Prize is awarded by The American Association for the Advancement of Science for public servants, recognized for sustained...
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Zetetic Scholar article in 1978. Two 1978 articles quoted physicist PhilipAbelson—then the editor of the journal Science—using the same phrasing as Truzzi...
Beams's team looked into gaseous diffusion at Columbia University, and PhilipAbelson directed research into thermal diffusion at the Carnegie Institution...
John Norman Abelson (born 1938 in Grand Coulee, Washington) is an American molecular biologist with expertise in biophysics, biochemistry, and genetics...
mid-1990s; nephew of PhilipAbelson and Neva Abelson; received the WSU Regents' Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2004 Neva Abelson, 1934 B.S. chemistry...
just another fission product. Another year passed before McMillan and PhilipAbelson determined that the 2-day half-life element was that of the elusive...
Bretscher and Norman Feather at the Cavendish and Edwin M. McMillan and PhilipAbelson at Berkeley Radiation Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley...
Richard Crane, Herman Feshbach, Robert Hofstadter, Yang Chen-Ning 1987—PhilipAbelson, Walter M. Elsasser, Paul Lauterbur, George Pake, James Van Allen 1988—D...
development was also confirmed in independent work by Edwin M. McMillan and PhilipAbelson at Berkeley Radiation Laboratory also in 1940. Nicholas Kemmer of the...
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and its 45,000-ton sister ship, Wisconsin. In the Naval Laboratory, PhilipAbelson developed the liquid thermal diffusion technique for separating uranium-235...
case by Frédéric Joliot and his team in March 1939. Edwin McMillan and PhilipAbelson used the cyclotron at the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory to bombard uranium...
advances in analytical chemistry that we can detect these traces at all. PhilipAbelson argued that the practice of administering huge doses of substances to...
possibility that the unknown substance was a rare earth. In May 1940, PhilipAbelson from the Carnegie Institute in Washington, DC, who had independently...
1928) July 31 – Virginia Grey, American actress (b. 1917) August 1 PhilipAbelson, American Nobel physicist (b. 1913) Alex Scott, notable victim and philanthropist...
wheat breeder Orville Vogel (not a student), physicist PhilipAbelson, and physician Neva Abelson. Donald Allen Duncan, who managed Washington State's Varsity...
org. April 2020. Retrieved 11 November 2020. "Nomination Archive – PhilipAbelson". NobelPrize.org. April 2020. Retrieved 11 November 2020. "Nomination...
(with Louis K. Diamond). The Philip and Neva Abelson Hall at Washington State University was named in her honor. Abelson graduated from Washington State...
by uranium-238, forming uranium-239. A letter by Edwin McMillan and PhilipAbelson published in the Physical Review on 15 June 1940 stated that this decayed...
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geography and biology at Western Maryland College Truman Abbe 1903 surgeon PhilipAbelson 1953 physicist Henry Adams 1878 historian and Pulitzer Prize recipient...
organs. He invented a Rhesus blood factor test with Neva Abelson (wife of physicist PhilipAbelson). Diamond died at his home in Los Angeles on June 14,...
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