Boyce McDaniel

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American physicist (1917-2002)

United States ScientistsLived 1917 to 2002 · aged 84

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Boyce Dawkins McDaniel was an American nuclear physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and later directed the Cornell University Laboratory of Nuclear Studies (LNS).

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McDaniel (right) and Norris Bradbury with the "gadget" atom bomb ahead of the Trinity test.

Tower used to hold the Trinity test device for detonation.

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Guggenheim Fellowship

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Boyce Dawkins McDaniel was an American nuclear physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and later directed the Cornell University Laboratory of Nuclear Studies (LNS). McDaniel was skilled in constructing "atom smashing" devices to study the fundamental structure of matter and helped to build the most powerful particle accelerators of his time. Together with his graduate student, he invented the pair spectrometer.

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