Gregory Breit
Gregory Breit · Science & Medicine
Physicist; the Breit-Wigner resonance formula in nuclear physics
1899, Mykolaiv, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) — 1981, Salem, Oregon, United States
Russian Empire · United States
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Gregory Breit was a Russian-born American physicist who, with Eugene Wigner, derived the Breit–Wigner formula describing resonances in nuclear reactions, and who made early proposals that led to the ionosphere's measurement and to particle accelerators. He was among the physicists who first urged the U.S. atomic bomb effort. He was Jewish.
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Physicist; the Breit-Wigner resonance formula in nuclear physics
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