University of Olivet Stanford University (AB) California Institute of Technology (MS, PhD)
Known for
Co-discoverer of the muon
Implosion-type atomic bomb
Awards
Enrico Fermi award (1982)
Scientific career
Fields
Physics
Institutions
National Bureau of Standards
Los Alamos Laboratory
University of Washington
Thesis
The absorption of high energy electrons(1935)
Doctoral advisor
Carl D. Anderson
Seth Henry Neddermeyer (September 16, 1907 – January 29, 1988) was an American physicist who co-discovered the muon, and later championed the implosion-type nuclear weapon while working on the Manhattan Project at the Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II.
Seth Henry Neddermeyer (September 16, 1907 – January 29, 1988) was an American physicist who co-discovered the muon, and later championed the implosion-type...
Neddermeyer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Robert Neddermeyer (1887–1965), German politician SethNeddermeyer (1907–1988), American...
starred in the Atom Egoyan–directed film Adoration (2008), and portrayed SethNeddermeyer in Oppenheimer (2023). Among his roles in television, Bostick portrayed...
Alvin M. Weinberg 1981 – W. Bennett Lewis 1982 – Herbert L. Anderson; SethNeddermeyer 1983 – Alexander Hollaender; John H. Lawrence 1984 – Robert R. Wilson;...
different nuclear reactions. Muons were discovered by Carl D. Anderson and SethNeddermeyer at Caltech in 1936 while studying cosmic radiation. Anderson noticed...
black hole collapse 1937 – Muon discovered by Carl David Anderson and SethNeddermeyer 1938 – Pyotr Kapitsa: Superfluidity discovered 1938 – Otto Hahn, Lise...
at the time. Also in 1936, Anderson and his first graduate student, SethNeddermeyer, discovered a muon (or 'mu-meson', as it was known for many years)...
weapon, but he created the E-5 Group at the Los Alamos Laboratory under SethNeddermeyer to investigate implosion as a hedge against the threat of pre-detonation...
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implosion, had begun earlier under the direction of the physicist SethNeddermeyer. Implosion used explosives to crush a subcritical sphere of fissile...
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development effort, brought in John Streib, Charles Critchfield and SethNeddermeyer from the National Bureau of Standards. The division was initially organized...
president of MIT, chair of President's Intelligence Advisory Board. SethNeddermeyer, 80, American physicist, complications of Parkinson's disease. Rogier...
also designed the Urchin initiator for the bomb working closely with SethNeddermeyer. This work was crucial to the success of the plutonium atomic bomb:...
Bibcode:1932Sci....76..238A. doi:10.1126/science.76.1967.238. PMID 17731542. S.H. Neddermeyer; C.D. Anderson (1937). "Note on the nature of Cosmic-Ray Particles" (PDF)...
hectometers to kilometers. Twenty years after Carl David Anderson and SethNeddermeyer discovered that muons were generated from cosmic rays in 1936, Australian...
mathematician who worked in general topology and functional analysis SethNeddermeyer – physicist; co-discoverer of the muon; Manhattan Project scientist;...
Alamos Laboratory, research into implosion had been proceeding under SethNeddermeyer, but his division had worked with cylinders and small charges, and...
early interest in this, watching tests of this concept conducted by SethNeddermeyer. The results were not encouraging. Simple explosions resulted in distorted...
theory. 1937 Hans Hellmann finds the Hellmann–Feynman theorem 1937 SethNeddermeyer, Carl Anderson, J.C. Street, and E.C. Stevenson discover muons using...
field of particle physics. Following the discovery of the muon by SethNeddermeyer and Carl D. Anderson in 1936, pioneer experiments on its properties...
Tolman and Bush. Perhaps the most controversial group head would be SethNeddermeyer, the head of the Implosion Experimentation Group; for the time being...