Jerrold Zacharias
Jerrold Zacharias · Science & Medicine
Physicist; atomic clocks and molecular beam methods
1905, Jacksonville, Florida, USA — 1986, Belmont, Massachusetts, USA
United States
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Jerrold Zacharias was an American physicist at MIT, a pioneer of molecular-beam methods who built the first commercial atomic clock, the foundation of modern timekeeping and GPS. He also led major reforms of American science education after Sputnik. He was born into a Jewish family in Florida.
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Physicist; atomic clocks and molecular beam methods
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