Joseph W. Kennedy

Joseph William Kennedy ( * May 30, 1916 in Nacogdoches, † May 5, 1957 in St. Louis) was an American physicist.

In 1935, he made ​​his bachelor's degree at Stephen F. Austin State Teachers College (now Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas) and later at the University of Kansas, his master 's degree in 1939 and his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley. At 27, he came during the Second World War in 1943 to the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he led the chemistry and metallurgy department. After the war he was a professor at Washington University in St. Louis.

He was with the Americans Glenn T. Seaborg, Edwin Mattison McMillan, Michael Cefola and Arthur dial a co-discoverer of the element plutonium.