Philip Abelson
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Philip Hauge Abelson was an American physicist, scientific editor and science writer. Trained as a nuclear physicist, he co-discovered the element neptunium, worked on isotope separation in the Manhat
Philip Abelson
Philadelphia Naval Shipyard
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The Philadelphia Naval Shipyard was a United States Navy shipyard in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded as a commercial operation in 1776, it became the Navy's first yard in 1801, and was historicall
Philip Abelson
…Although he was not formally associated with the atom bomb project, the liquid thermal diffusion isotope separation technique that he invented at the Philadelphia Navy Yard was used in the S-50 plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and proved a critical step in creating the large amount of nuclear fuel required for building atomic…
An aerial view of the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in 1955
Commandants Quarters PNS
A list of Philadelphia Naval Hospital staff at Philadelphia Navy Yard on 1 July 1835
The League Island Crane with the destroyer USS Lamson in the foreground in May 1923