George C. Baldwin
| George C. Baldwin | |
|---|---|
| Born | May 5, 1917 Denver, Colorado |
| Died | January 23, 2010 (age 92) Albuquerque, New Mexico |
| Residence | United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Atomic and nuclear experimental and theoretical physics |
| Institutions |
General Electric Research Laboratory Argonne National Laboratory Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| Alma mater |
Kalamazoo College University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign |
| Thesis | Measurements on the Nuclear Photo-Effect at Energies Below 20 MeV (1943) |
| Doctoral advisor | Donald William Kerst |
George Curriden Baldwin (May 5, 1917 – January 23, 2010) was an American theoretical and experimental physicist. He was a professor of nuclear engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a scientist working at the General Electric Research Laboratory and at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. He wrote a book on Nonlinear Optics and authored or co-authored over 130 technical papers.
George C. Baldwin earned his B.S. degree in physics from Kalamazoo College in 1939 and his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1943. His Ph.D. thesis was on the nuclear photo-effect; his thesis advisor was Donald William Kerst.
Continuing at Illinois, he taught college-level physics in the Army Specialized Training Program during World War II. He joined General Electric Research Laboratory in Schenectady, New York, as a physicist working on industrial research and development (1944-1967). He directed the Argonaut Research Reactor facility at Argonne National Laboratory, conducting neutron measurements and developing operational procedures (1958-1959). He was a Professor of Nuclear Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York (1967-1977). He continued his research at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico (1977-1987).
Baldwin’s fields of research included photo-nuclear reactions with bremsstrahlung radiation from electron accelerators, resulting in the discovery of the giant dipole resonance; orbit dynamics of synchrotrons; nuclear reactor physics; electrical propulsion for space; low-energy electron scattering in gases; nonlinear optics; and investigation of the feasibility of a gamma-ray laser.
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