Donald William Kerst (1911 to 1993) was an American physicist who worked on advanced particle accelerator concepts and on plasma physics. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin, he developed the first betatron at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, which became operational on 15 July 1940, and in World War II he worked with General Electric engineers on betatron designs, including a portable betatron for inspecting dud bombs. In 1943 he joined the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, where he designed and built the Water Boiler reactor. He later directed technical work at the Midwestern Universities Research Association on FFAG accelerators, worked on plasma containment at General Atomics, and returned to the University of Wisconsin as a professor from 1962 to 1980.
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Donald William Kerst was born in Galena, Illinois November 1, 1911
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was an American physicist who worked on advanced particle accelerator concepts
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He is most notable for his development of the betatron, a novel type of particle accelerator used to accelerate electrons.
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was an American physicist who worked on advanced particle accelerator concepts
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was an American physicist who worked on advanced particle accelerator concepts
Member Of: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Betatron, institution university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign
he accepted an offer of an instructorship at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Member Of: University of Wisconsin-Madison, Later life, institution university-of-wisconsin-madison
The two completed this work at the University of Wisconsin, where Kerst was a professor from 1962 until his retirement in 1980.
Member Of: Los Alamos National Laboratory, World War II, institution los-alamos-national-laboratory
Kerst's engineering and physics background placed him near the top of the list of scientists that Robert Oppenheimer recruited for the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory
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was an American physicist who worked on advanced particle accelerator concepts
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