Ann T. Nelms
Ann T. Nelms | |
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| Born | 1929 |
| Nationality | American |
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| Fields | Nuclear physics |
| Institutions | National Bureau of Standards |
Ann T. Nelms (born 1929) is a prominent African American nuclear physicist. Her research, which involved the study of the persistence of nuclear radioactivity, was cited in reports on nuclear fallout and human health.
Life and career
[edit]Nelms was born in 1929[1][2] in Waycross, Georgia.[3]
She worked as a nuclear physicist for National Bureau of Standards in the 1950s.[3] She collaborated in her nuclear research with Ugo Fano, an Italian-born academician who joined the National Bureau of Standards as the bureau's first theoretical physicist after a stint at Aberdeen Proving Grounds. She also collaborated with J W Cooper, a senior research fellow with the National Bureau of Standards.[4]
As of January 1954, she lived in the Washington, D.C., area with her husband and one-year-old child.[3]
Publications
[edit]- "Graphs of the Compton Energy-Angle Relationship and the Klein-Nishina formula from 10 Kev to 500 Mev", published in 1953, 89 pp, US Government Printing Office.[5]
- "Energy Loss and Range of Electrons and Positrons", published in the Circular of the National Bureau of Standards, Issue 577, 1956, 30 pp, US Government Printing Office.[6]
- "An Approximate Expression of Gamma Ray Degradation Spectra", co-authored with U Fano, published in the Journal of Research, National Bureau of Standards, Vol 59, July–December 1957, pg 122.
- "U235 Fission Product Decay Spectra at Various Times After Fission", co-authored with J W Cooper, published in Health Physics, volume 1, pg 427, 1959. It is cited extensively in "Fallout Phenomena Symposium, April 12-14, 1966, published in the proceedings of the US Naval Radiological Laboratory, USNRDL-R&L-177, June 9, 1966. It also is referenced in A Compendium of Information for Use in Controlling Radiation Emergencies, Including Lecture Notes from a Training Session at Idaho Falls, Idaho February 12-14, 1958, published September 1, 1960, by the Office of Health and Safety, Atomic Energy Commission, under sponsorship of the US Department of Energy.
- "Data on the Atomic form Factor: computation and Survey," co-authored with Irwin Oppenheim, published in Journal of Research of the National Bureau of Standards, Vol. 55, No. 1, July 1955, research Paper 2604.
References
[edit]- ^ "In Black and White: A Guide to Magazine Articles, Newspaper Articles, and Books Concerning Black Individuals and Groups", Third Edition, edited by Mary Mace Spradling, 1980, Gale Research, Detroit
- ^ Blacks in Science and Medicine, by Vivian Ovelton Sammons, 1990, Hemisphere Publishing, New York
- ^ a b c "Hurray for Waycross, Ga", Pittsburgh Courier, January 9, 1954
- ^ Abstract 40.441, Reviews of Modern Physics, 1968
- ^ Biennial Report of the National Bureau of Standards, 1953-1954
- ^ Annual Report of the National Bureau of Standards, 1957
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