Farrington Daniels
Farrington Daniels ( born March 8, 1889 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, † June 23, 1972 ) was an American physical chemist.
Life
During World War II, he was head of the metallurgical department of the Manhattan Project. In 1944, he developed the fundamentals of the nuclear pebble bed reactor, to which he gave the still pebble bed reactor and common name which was later further developed in Germany. From 1950 he became involved with the Union of Concerned Scientists against the nuclear arms race. At the University of Wisconsin, he built a laboratory for solar energy use and is now considered one of the pioneers. A prize of the International Solar Energy Society ( ISES ) for services to the use of solar energy is named after him. He wrote several textbooks on physical chemistry and solar energy, made the long runs and co-founded the first U.S. magazine about solar energy.