Nuclear Engineering

construction of an atomic pile which would make possible the controlled release of nuclear energy

Nuclear physics

Nuclear power reactor types

Ionising radiation detectors

Walter Henry Zinn (December 10, 1906, February 14, 2000) was a Canadian-born American nuclear physicist who was the first director of the Argonne National Laboratory from 1946 to 1956.

The Energy Catalyzer (also called E-Cat) is a supposed cold fusion reactor promoted by its inventor Andrea Rossi with support from the late physicist Sergio Focardi.

Because the target of the particle beams of early accelerators was usually the atoms of a piece of matter, with the goal being to create collisions with their nuclei in order to investigate nuclear structure, accelerators were commonly referred to as atom smashers in the 20th century.

He is known as the inventor of the Geiger counter, a device used to detect ionizing radiation, and for carrying out the Rutherford scattering experiments, which led to the discovery of the atomic nucleus.

Their work on ionization of gases by collision lead to the invention of the Geiger-Müller counter, a now indispensable tool for measuring radioactive radiation.

A gas centrifuge is a device that performs isotope separation of gases.

In 1929 he invented the cyclotron, a device for accelerating nuclear particles to very high velocities without the use of high voltages.