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Elda Emma Anderson

1899 - 1961

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Elda Emma Anderson (October 5, 1899 – April 17, 1961) was an American physicist and health researcher. During World War II, she worked on the Manhattan Project at Princeton University and the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where she prepared the first sample of pure uranium-235 at the laboratory. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin, she became professor of physics at Milwaukee-Downer College in 1929. After the war, she became interested in health physics. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Elda Emma Anderson is the 753rd most popular physicist (down from 700th in 2019), the 9,810th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,695th in 2019) and the 169th most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Elda Emma Anderson ranks 753 out of 851. Before her are Humberto Fernández-Morán, Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels, Stanton T. Friedman, John Hopkinson, Balfour Stewart, and Max Tegmark. After her are Mary K. Gaillard, John Pendry, Brian Cox, Frank Benford, Paul Steinhardt, and Jacques Friedel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Elda Emma Anderson ranks 282. Before her are George O'Brien, Lyman Lemnitzer, Aline MacMahon, Juliusz Schauder, Alan Washbond, and Bart McGhee. After her are Adolf Brudes, Kazimierz Laskowski, Frits Kuipers, Lucie Mannheim, Folke Rogard, and George Beauchamp. Among people deceased in 1961, Elda Emma Anderson ranks 181. Before her are Max Schöne, Aloys Van de Vyvere, William Z. Foster, William Alexander Morgan, Harry DeBaecke, and Anita Stewart. After her are Niels Petersen, Kazimierz Laskowski, Whittaker Chambers, Zoltan Korda, Augustus John, and Gail Russell.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Elda Emma Anderson ranks 9,812 out of 20,380. Before her are Sonny Terry (1911), Kevin Alejandro (1976), Randy Matson (1945), Phillip Griffiths (1938), Willie Davenport (1943), and Denton Cooley (1920). After her are Wallace Langham (1965), Dudley Nichols (1895), Billy Beane (1962), Brad Gilbert (1961), Mary Boland (1882), and John Keel (1930).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Elda Emma Anderson ranks 169. Before her are Karl Taylor Compton (1887), James Hartle (1939), Seymour Benzer (1921), Shirley Ann Jackson (1946), Robert Bacher (1905), and Stanton T. Friedman (1934). After her are Mary K. Gaillard (1939), Frank Benford (1883), Paul Steinhardt (1952), Bertrand Halperin (1941), Robert Marshak (1916), and Samuel King Allison (1900).

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