Alfred Otto Carl Nier
✓ Source-basedrisingAmerican physicist (1911-1994)
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Alfred Otto Carl Nier was an American physicist who pioneered the development of mass spectrometry. He was the first to use mass spectrometry to isolate uranium-235 which was used to demonstrate that 235U could undergo fission and developed the sector mass spectrometer configuration now known as Nier-Johnson geometry.
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Maurice EwingAlso won William Bowie Medal
Stefan RahmstorfAlso won Fellow of the American Geophysical Union
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United StatesCategory
Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1911 to 1994 · aged 82
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