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Thorfin R. Hogness

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According to Wikipedia, Thorfin Rusten Hogness was a physical chemist, director of plutonium research for the Manhattan Project, and, after WW II, an advocate of "international control of nuclear energy". Biography Hogness graduated from the University of Minnesota with a B.S. in 1918 in chemistry and a Ch.E. degree in 1919 in chemical engineering. He received in 1921 a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley . His Ph.D. thesis is entitled The surface tensions and densities of liquid mercury, cadmium, zinc, lead, tin and bismuth. From 1921 to 1930 he was a faculty member at UC Berkeley, except for a leave of absence from 1926 to 1927 when he had a research fellowship at the University of Göttingen. In the chemistry department of the University of Chicago he became in 1930 an associate professor and in 1938 a full professor.

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