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Sewell, Duane C., 1918-2008


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    • Duane Campbell
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      • found: Nominations of Stanley R. Resor, Duane Sewell, and James P. Wade, Jr.: hearing before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, Ninety-fifth Congress, second session, 1978page 8 (Duane C. Sewell, of California; nominated to be an Assistant Secretary of Energy (defense programs, new position); born August 15, 1918 in Oaklund, California; Deputy Directoer of the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory)
      • found: A device for determining the direction of flux lines in the time varying magnetic field of a particle accelerator, 1949:title page (Duane C. Sewell)
      • found: Angular distribution of high-energy neutrons from targets bombarded by 330-Mev protons, 1950:title page (Duane C. Sewell)
      • found: Callahan Mortuary & Livermore Crematory, via WWW, January 12, 2016(Duane Sewell, 1918-2008, Obituary; longtime Livermore resident Duane Sewell, a senior manager at LLNL, died Wednesday, October 22, 2008; he was 90; born August 15, 1918, he earned a B.A. in Chemistry and Physics from University of the Pacific; he then pursued a Ph. D. in Physics at UC Berkeley, but gave that up at the request of Ernest Lawrence when asked to work on the new cyclotron at UC Berkeley; he was one of the founding fathers of LLNL, starting there in 1952; served as Deputy Director of LLNL; appointed assistant secretary of Defense for the DOE Defense Programs by President Jimmy Carter in 1978; and was awarded a U.S. Department of Energy Distinguished Service Medal from Congress in 1981)
      • found: Atomic Heritage Foundation, via WWW, January 12, 2016(Duane Sewell; Scientist, Oak Ridge, TN, University of California, Berkeley; Manhattan Project Veteran; born August 15, 1918 in Oakland, California; received a Bachelor's Degree from the University of the Pacific in Physics in 1940; Duane Sewell began working with the Manhattan Project in 1941; he was one of the first people to arrive at Oak Ridge and experienced first-hand some of the difficulties there with cyclotrons and isotope separation; after the war, Sewell returned to Berkeley and, in 1950, became the development coordinator for the MTA linear accelerator project involving the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory)
      • found: ancestry.com, January 12, 2016(Duane Campbell Sewell; Duane C. Sewell; Duane Sewell; born August 15, 1918 in Oakland, Alameda County, California; died October 22, 2008 in Livermore, Alameda County, California)
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      • 1979-01-29: new
      • 2023-09-08: revised
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