Year: 2021
Type: article
Abstract: Looking back on Willy Wölfli's scientific achievements is not an easy task.However, to fully understand his remarkable contributions to AMS, one has to begin with a look at his professional career.Influenced by the worldwide crises of the 1930s and 1940s, which also left their mark on Switzerland, Willy Wölfli first completed an apprenticeship as a highfrequency electrician before studying physics at the engineering school in Biel and later at the ETH Zurich.There, such famous people as Wolfgang Pauli and Paul Scherrer crossed his path.Driven by the enthusiasm of the time for the immense potential of nuclear power, he began his dissertation on the Saphir experimental nuclear reactor (Nuclear Power Switzerland).This research reactor was built at Argonne National Laboratory in 1955 as part of the Atoms for Peace Program initiated by Dwight D. Eisenhower (Eisenhower 1953) and was shown in operation at the Geneva Atomic Energy Exhibition (IAEA 1964) in autumn of the same year.
Source: Radiocarbon
DOI: 10.1017/rdc.2021.33
Authors: Hans-Arno Synal, Jürg Beer, Martin Suter
Language: English
Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $1,625
OpenAlex ID: W3170159865