Alfred O. C. Nier
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 29 years ago |
| Date of birth | May 28,1911 |
| Zodiac sign | Gemini |
| Born | Saint Paul |
| Minnesota | |
| United States | |
| Date of died | May 16,1994 |
| Died | Minneapolis |
| Minnesota | |
| United States | |
| Field | Physicist |
| Books | A Null Method for the Comparison of Two Ion Currents in a Mass Spectrometer |
| Education | University of Minnesota |
| Humboldt High School | |
| Awards | William Bowie Medal |
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| ID | 1431598 |
Alfred O. C. Nier Life story
Alfred Otto Carl Nier was an American physicist who pioneered the development of mass spectrometry. He was the first to use mass spectrometry to isolate uranium-235 which was used to demonstrate that ²³⁵U could undergo fission and developed the sector mass spectrometer configuration now known as Nier-Johnson geometry.
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