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  1. David H. Frisch Los Alamos wartime security badge. David Henry Frisch (March 12, 1918 – May 23, 1991) was an American physicist who helped develop the atom bomb in World War II and later became active in the disarmament movement. [2] He was also the husband of Rose Epstein Frisch .

  2. David H. Frisch was an American physicist. He worked on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, working with the Van de Graaff long tank accelerator to measure neutron cross sections. He later became active in the nuclear disarmament movement. He was a professor at physics at MIT for more than 40 years. David’s son, Henry Frisch, was born at Los ...

  3. May 25, 1991 · David H. Frisch, a professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for 40 years, died Thursday at his home in Cambridge. He was 73 years old. He died of cancer, said a spokesman ...

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  5. David Henry Frisch, 1918-1991, AB 1940, Princeton; PhD 1947, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was a professor in the MIT Department of Physics, 1948-1988. He was a specialist in the field of nuclear and elementary particle physics. Before coming to MIT, Frisch did basic research toward the development of the fusion bomb on the Manhattan ...

  6. Frisch–Smith experiment. A much more precise experiment of this kind was conducted by David H. Frisch and Smith (1962) and documented by a film. They measured approximately 563 muons per hour in six runs on Mount Washington at 1917m above sea-level. By measuring their kinetic energy, mean muon velocities between 0.995 c and 0.9954 c were ...

  7. David H. Frisch papers. Scope and Contents of the Collection The collection consists primarily of Frisch's lecture notes and teaching materials for physics courses, from the 1950s to 1988; and correspondence, diagrams, experimental work, and reprints of Frisch's scientific work on elementary particle physics, particularly neutron and proton ...

  8. Dr. David H. Frisch, professor emeritus of physics who helped develop the atom bomb in World War II and later became active in the disarmament movement, died Thursday, May 23, of cancer at his home in Cambridge. Professor Frisch was 73. Services were private. A memorial service will be held Wednesday, June 5, at 11am in the MIT Chapel. Dr ...

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