Edwin McMillan Biography - Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1951

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Audience/Grade:	College Freshman - Continuing Education
Discipline(s):	Chemistry Nuclear Engineering Physics
Special Topic(s):	History of Technology
Learning Resource Type:	Reference - Article/Document
Media Type:	WWW
Author(s):	Nobelprize.org
Description:	"McMillan attended the California Institute of Technology, obtaining a B.Sc. degree in 1928, and taking his M.Sc. degree a year later, then transferring to Princeton University for Ph.D. in 1932. The same year he entered the University of California at Berkeley as a National Research Fellow. The thesis he submitted for Ph.D. was in the field of molecular beams, and the problem he undertook as a National Research Fellow was the measurement of the magnetic moment of the proton by a molecular beam method. After two years on this work and one as a research associate he became a Staff Member of the Radiation Laboratory under Professor E.O. Lawrence, studying nuclear reactions and their products, and helping in the design and construction of cyclotrons and other equipment, and a member of the Faculty in the Department of Physics at Berkely, being appointed Instructor in 1935, Assistant Professor in 1936, Associate Professor, 1941, and Professor in 1946."
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