George Irving Bell (August 4, 1926 in Evanston, Illinois – May 28, 2000) was an American physicist, biologist and mountaineer. He died from complications of leukemia after surgery.
Bell received a bachelor's degree in physics from Harvard University in 1947. He studied theoretical physics with Hans Bethe at Cornell University, obtaining his doctorate in 1951.
Immediately after receiving his Ph.D., Bell came to the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory...
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George Irving Bell (August 4, 1926 in Evanston, Illinois – May 28, 2000) was an American physicist, biologist and mountaineer. He died from complications of leukemia after surgery.
Bell received a bachelor's degree in physics from Harvard University in 1947. He studied theoretical physics with Hans Bethe at Cornell University, obtaining his doctorate in 1951.
Immediately after receiving his Ph.D., Bell came to the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory and joined the "T Division." At the time, this division was primarily occupied in the design of the first thermonuclear weapon. Bell contributed by solving problems of neutron transport.
Such problems are also crucial in the design and analysis of nuclear reactors, so it was natural that Bell became a leading expert on the physics of reactors. He co-authored the book Nuclear Reactor Theory with Samuel Glasstone.
Bell's interests turned to biology in the 1960s, creating quantitative models in immunology. He headed the Theoretical Biology and...
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