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Samuel King Allison

1900 - 1965

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Samuel King Allison (November 13, 1900 – September 15, 1965) was an American physicist, most notable for his role in the Manhattan Project, for which he was awarded the Medal for Merit. A professor who studied X-rays, he was director of the Metallurgical Laboratory from 1943 until 1944, and later worked at the Los Alamos Laboratory — where he "rode herd" on the final stages of the project as part of the "Cowpuncher Committee", and read the countdown for the detonation of the Trinity nuclear test. After the war, he returned to the University of Chicago to direct the Institute for Nuclear Studies and was involved in the "scientists' movement", lobbying for civilian control of nuclear weapons. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Samuel King Allison is the 773rd most popular physicist (up from 784th in 2019), the 10,333rd most popular biography from United States (up from 10,944th in 2019) and the 175th most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Samuel King Allison ranks 773 out of 851. Before him are Robert Marshak, Ernst Stueckelberg, Gersh Budker, Ronald Drever, Paul Corkum, and Juan Martín Maldacena. After him are C. R. Hagen, Julian Barbour, Miguel Alcubierre, Emil Wolf, Egon Orowan, and Harvey Fletcher.

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Among people born in 1900, Samuel King Allison ranks 305. Before him are Beatrix Loughran, John McEwen, Jorge Sarmiento, Giovanni De Prà, Leon Kruczkowski, and Bernabé Rivera. After him are Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, Martita Hunt, André Dhôtel, Horatio Fitch, Nikolay Okhlopkov, and John T. Scopes. Among people deceased in 1965, Samuel King Allison ranks 213. Before him are Ludwig Wrede, Søren Marinus Jensen, Chris Berger, Óscar Cristi, Hugh Latimer Dryden, and Spike Jones. After him are Gilbert Colgate, Frances Perkins, Halvdan Koht, Ray Collins, David Smith, and Gheorghe Ciolac.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Samuel King Allison ranks 10,335 out of 20,380. Before him are Norman Taber (1891), Steve Wynn (1942), Ella Raines (1920), Jurnee Smollett-Bell (1986), John Prine (1946), and Molly Quinn (1993). After him are Joe Verdeur (1926), C. R. Hagen (1937), Cornel West (1953), Thomas Bopp (1949), Esther Phillips (1935), and Charles F. Hockett (1916).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Samuel King Allison ranks 175. Before him are Elda Emma Anderson (1899), Mary K. Gaillard (1939), Frank Benford (1883), Paul Steinhardt (1952), Bertrand Halperin (1941), and Robert Marshak (1916). After him are C. R. Hagen (1937), Harvey Fletcher (1884), Frank Press (1924), James M. Bardeen (1939), Robert Detweiler (1930), and Erwin Hahn (1921).

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