Seymour Bernstein, physicist (1909-1981)

Seymour Bernstein (1909-1981) was an American physicist and one of the pioneer workers of nuclear energy. He contributed to the fields of nuclear energy, neutron physics, nuclear physics, nuclear reactor physics, solid-state physics, cryogenics, X-rays and particle physics.

Career

Bernstein received his Bachelor of Science in Engineering in 1930 from the University of Illinois at Urbana and his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Chicago in 1939. His doctoral dissertation was entitled X-ray diffraction by a film of counted molecular layers.

Bernstein was invited by Professor Aruthur Compton to become a member of the original research team of the Metallurgical Laboratory of the University of Chicago. Bernstein served as a Research Associate there from January 1, 1942 until sometime in 1944. From 1944-1964 he was Chief Physicist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. During 1948-1961 he also served as lecturer at the University of Tennessee. Bernstein was a Visiting Professor of Physics at the University of Miami in Coral Gables in 1961-1962 and a Visiting Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory in the summers of 1965, 1967 and 1968. In 1964 he became Professor of Physics at University of Illinois at Chicago Circle. Bernstein collaborated with a number of well-known physicists including Leo Szilard, Ernest O. Wollan, Julius Ashkin, and Bernard T. Feld.

Selected Publications

Holley, Clifford; Bernstein, Seymour (1937). "Grating Space of Barium-Copper-Stearate Films". Physical Review. 52 (5): 525–525. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.52.525.2.

Bernstein, Seymour (1940). "X-Ray and Optical Properties of Built-up Films". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 62 (2): 525–525. doi:10.1021/ja01859a041.

J. Ashkin; S. Bernstein; B. Feld; H. Kubitschek; L. Szilard (1947). Preliminary comparison of radon-boron and radium-beryllium neutron sources. Technical Information Division, Oak Ridge Operations. Search this book on

Bernstein, S.; Preston, W.M.; Wolfe, G.; Slattery, R.E. (1947). "Yield of Photo-Neutrons from U²³⁵ Fission Products in Heavy Water". Physical Review. 71 (9): 573–581. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.71.573.

Szilard, L.; Bernstein, S.; Feld, B.; Ashkin, J. (1948). "Inelastic Scattering of Fast Neutrons by Fe, Pb, and Bi". Physical Review. 73 (11): 1307–1310. Bibcode:1948PhRv...73.1307S. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.73.1307.

Bernstein, S.; Roberts, L.D.; Stanford, C.P.; Dabbs, J.W.; Stephenson, T.E. (1954). "Interaction of Polarized Neutrons with Polarized Mn⁵⁵ Nuclei". Physical Review. 94 (5): 1243–1251. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.94.1243.

Bernstein, S.; Shapiro, M.M.; Stanford, C.P.; Stephenson, T.E.; Dial, J.B.; Freed, S.; Parker, G.W.; Brosi, A.R.; Hebert, G.M.; DeWitt, T.W. (1956). "Neutron Cross Section of Xenon-135 as a Function of Energy". Physical Review. 102 (3): 823–830. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.102.823.

Standford, C.P.; Stephenson, T.E.; Bernstein, Seymour (1954). "Neutron Spin from Magnetic Resonance Equipment". Physical Review. 96 (4): 983–984. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.96.983.

Bernstein, S.; Ergen, W.K.; Talbott, F.K.; Leslie, C.P.; Stanford, C.P. (1956). ""Yield of Photoneutrons from U²³⁵ Fission Products in Beryllium and Deuterium". Journal of Applied Physics. 27 (1): 18–22. doi:10.1063/1.1722188.

Bernstein, S.; Leslie, C.R.; McKinney, C.R.; Jackson, H.K. (1956). ""Photoneutrons from U²³³ and Pu²³⁹ Fission Products in Heavy Water". Journal of Applied Physics. 27 (1): 23–24. doi:10.1063/1.1722189.

Bernstein, S.; McLeod, D.W.; Phelan, J.J.; Rickhoff, W.L.; Roberts, A.; Siljander, W.A.; Yurka, G.E. (1965). "A New Magnetic Spark Chamber System". IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Sicence. 12 (4): 120–124. Bibcode:1965ITNS...12..120B. doi:10.1109/TNS.1965.4323824.

Bernstein, S.; Campbell, E.C. (1963). "Nuclear Anomalous Dispersion in Fe⁵⁷ by the Method of Total Reflection". Physical Review. 132 (4): 1625–1633. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.132.1625.

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