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"relevant_courses":["thermodynamics"],
"relevant_concepts":["thermodynamics","Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution"],
"wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Ernest_Wilkins_Jr",
"image":"/img/uploads/j-ernest-wilkins-jr.jpeg",
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"general_bio":"Born in 1923, J. Ernest Wilkins, Jr. entered the University of Chicago at age 13, and received his Ph.D. at age 19. His first job was teaching mathematics at the Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University). He co-discovered the Wigner-Wilkins approach for estimating the distribution of neutron energies in nuclear reactors in 1944 (declassified in 1948) [1]. Worked with Fermi and Compton on the Manhattan Project (without knowing the ultimate goal of the work until after the atomic bomb was dropped) in the early 1940s. Distinguished Professor of Applied Mathematical Physics at Howard University in 1970. He was the second African American to be elected to the National Academy of Engineers in 1976. He published more than 100 papers on differential geometry, linear differential equations, integrals, nuclear engineering, gamma radiation shielding, and optics. He passed away at age 87 in 2011.",
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"Wigner-Wilkins approach": "In a nuclear reactor, energy is released when uranium atoms fission, or split, after being hit by a neutron. Each fission also releases additional neutrons, which bounce around within the reactor at a variety of energies. Wigner and Wilkins' work on determining the energy distribution of such neutrons [1] is a foundation of nuclear physics, still cited by researchers today. Those neutrons go on to initiate more fissions, producing a chain reaction, so understanding their energies is crucial for designing reactors."
"Wigner-Wilkins approach": "In a nuclear reactor, energy is released when uranium atoms fission, or split, after being hit by a neutron. Each fission also releases additional neutrons, which bounce around within the reactor at a variety of energies. Wigner and Wilkins' work on determining the energy distribution of such neutrons [1] is a foundation of nuclear physics, still cited by researchers today. Those neutrons go on to initiate more fissions, producing a chain reaction, so understanding their energies is crucial for designing reactors.",
"Radiation Shielding Theory": "Developed significant theories in radiation shielding that are still in use today.",
"Mathematical Models": "Created mathematical models that have advanced the understanding of nuclear physics."
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"citations":["https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-77425-6_33"],
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"relevant_courses": ["Material Science"],
"relevant_concepts": ["Young’s Modulus"],
"wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Chilton_Noyes",
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"general_bio": "Dr. Mary Chilton Noyes was one of the first women to receive a Ph.D. in the United States. She received her Ph.D. from Western Reserve University, which is now known as Case Western Reserve University, in 1895. Noyes was born on January 13th, 1855. Prior to her PhD, she received a bachelor's of philosophy in 1881, master's of arts from Iowa in 1884, and a master's of science from Cornell in 1894. Western Reserve has constructed a brand new physics research building without the use of Fe so it would not interfere with delicate B-field measurements. This new building is probably why Noyes pursued a PhD at Western Reserve because her own research required this building and at the time her 1-year PhD aligned with Western Reserve’s requirements. Noyes' PhD work, 'The Influence of Heat and the Electric Current Upon Young’s Modulus for a Piano Wire', was published in the fourth issue of Physical Review. She continued her career as a teacher of mathematics at Lake Erie College, followed by becoming an instructor of mathematics, physics, and astronomy at Indianapolis Academy.",
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"relevant_courses": ["electricity and magnetism", "modern physics"],
"relevant_concepts": ["plasma confinement", "nuclear physics"],
"wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Ellis_(physicist)",
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"general_bio": "Robert A. Ellis Jr. was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1927. Ellis earned his bachelor's degree from Fisk University and his master's from Yale University. Ellis became an instructor at the Tennessee Agricultural & Industrial State College, at the time an all-Black institution (now Tennessee State University); Ellis later was promoted to full professor there. On leave from that position, he completed PhD work at the University of Iowa, where he was James Van Allen’s first PhD student. He designed payloads for balloon-launched rockets to study cosmic rays in the upper atmosphere. From the obituary in Physics Today, 'Van Allen' urged him to seek a position at a research university. But Bob’s commitment to black. In 1956, Ellis joined Project Matterhorn (later became the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory) to work in a group led by Lyman Spitzer Jr., who invented the stellarator. Remained at PPPL until his death in 1989. He committed to furthering international cooperation and collaboration in science, in various positions (including spending 6 months at the Institute of Nuclear Physics in Novosibirsk, USSR in 1969; 2 years as head of the physics section of the IAEA).",
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