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Robert J. Van de Graaff
American physicist (1901–1967)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 20 December 1901
- Died
- 16 January 1967
- Place of birth
- Tuscaloosa
- Place of death
- Boston
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Robert
- Family name
- De Graaff, van de Graaff
- Mother
- Minnie Cherokee Hargrove
- Field of work
- physics
- Occupation
- physicist, university teacher
- Citizenship
- United States
- Awards
- Elliott Cresson Medal, Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics, Rhodes Scholarship, Dennis Gabor Medal and Prize, Fellow of the American Physical Society
- described by source
- Physicists: Biographical Dictionary
- doctoral advisor
- John Sealy Townsend
- doctoral student
- John G. Trump
- name in native language
- Robert Jemison Van de Graaff
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Physics
- place of burial
- Beverly Central Cemetery
- residence
- Tuscaloosa
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