Edward Condon
Edward Uhler Condon was an American nuclear physicist, a pioneer in quantum mechanics, and a participant during World War II in the development of radar and, very briefly, of nuclear weapons as part of the Manhattan Project. The Franck–Condon principle and the Slater–Condon rules are co-named after him.
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- Born in
- Alamogordo
- Educated at
- University of California, Berkeley
- Awards
- 🏆 Frederic Ives Medal🏆 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science🏆 Fellow of the American Physical Society
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Raymond Thayer Birge
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Edwin McMillan
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1902
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