Robert J. Van de Graaff
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Robert Jemison Van de Graaff was an American applied physicist and inventor. He is best known for developing the Van de Graaff generator, a high-voltage electrostatic machine that became a fundamental
Marie Curie's lectures, in which Irène Curie demonstrated particle decay, sparked Van de Graaff's experimental interests.
Van de Graaff demonstrated his $100 generator in Nov. 1931
Robert Jemison Jr.
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Robert Jemison Jr. was an American politician, entrepreneur and slave owner who served as a Confederate States Senator from Alabama from 1863 to 1865. He also served in the two houses of the Alabama L
Robert J. Van de Graaff
…youngest of four sons of Adrian Sebastian Van de Graaff and Minnie Cherokee Jemison. The family had deep roots in Alabama: his great-grandfather was Robert Jemison Jr., a slaveholder planter and former state senator, and his father, a circuit judge, had been a substitute on Yale's first 11-man football team. The elder…
Robert Jemison Tuscaloosa 1889