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Alfred O. C. Nier

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Gender Male
Death30 years ago
Date of birth May 28,1911
Zodiac sign Gemini
Born Saint Paul
Minnesota
United States
Date of died May 16,1994
DiedMinneapolis
Minnesota
United States
FieldPhysicist
BooksA Null Method for the Comparison of Two Ion Currents in a Mass Spectrometer
Education University of Minnesota
Humboldt High School
Awards William Bowie Medal
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Alfred O. C. Nier Life story


Alfred Otto Carl Nier was an American physicist who pioneered the development of mass spectrometry. He was the first to use mass spectrometry to isolate uranium-235 which was used to demonstrate that ²³⁵U could undergo fission and developed the sector mass spectrometer configuration now known as Nier-Johnson geometry.

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