Rubby Sherr

Rubby Sherr ( born September 14, 1913 in Long Branch (New Jersey); † July 8, 2013 in Haverford ( Pennsylvania)) was an American physicist who dealt with nuclear physics and was involved in the development of the atomic bomb.

Career

Sherr was born the son of Lithuanian immigrants, went to Lakewood High School and New York University. He was there in 1934 Bachelor in Physics and Princeton University 1938 Ph.D in Physics. 1942 moved Sherr to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1944 he worked for the Manhattan Project to build the first atomic bomb in a run by Charles Critchfield group. Sherr developed there along with Klaus Fuchs is an important element for the pilot of the plutonium bomb, the fox - modulated neutron initiator Sherr, a neutron source in the center of the bomb. The dropping of the first atomic bomb in 1945, he watched from a bunker.

As of 1946, Sherr professor at Princeton University, 1949 Associate Professor and since 1955 a full professorship. In 1953 he found experimental evidence for the Fermi interaction. From 1955 to 1971, he initiated the United States Atomic Energy Commission project. He conducted research on nuclear physics at low energies at the Princeton cyclotron, its continued development for Princeton AVF cyclotron (1970 ), he oversaw. Sherr emeritus in 1982. Recently, he dealt with the calculation of properties of mirror nuclei.

In the course of his life Sherr has published over 100 scientific contributions. In 1947 he invented a scintillation counter and 1953, a Doppler radar.