| Robert J. Van de Graaff AKA Robert Jemison Van de Graaff Born: 20-Dec-1901
Birthplace: Tuscaloosa, AL
Died: 16-Jan-1967
Location of death: Boston, MA
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Buried, Central Cemetery, Beverly, MA
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Inventor, Physicist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Van de Graaff generator Inventor of the Van de Graaff Generator, a device for producing high voltages used in the earliest particle accelerators. In 1931 he demonstrated a device which produced 1M volts; two years later he built the largest one ever constructed, which produced 7M volts. Father: Adrian Sebastian Van de Graaff
Mother: Minnie Cherokee Hargrove
Wife: Catherine Boyden (two sons)
Son: John
Son: William
University: BS Mechanical Engineering, University of Alabama (1922)
University: MS Mechanical Engineering, University of Alabama (1923)
University: Sorbonne
University: BSc, Oxford University (1926)
University: PhD, Oxford University (1928)
Fellow: Palmer Physics Lab, Princeton University (1929-31)
University: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1931-34)
Professor: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1934-60)
High Voltage Engineering Corporation Chief Physicist (1946-67)
Alabama Power Company Research assistant
American Physical Society
American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow (1935)
Rhodes Scholarship
Dutch Ancestry
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