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Robert B. Duffield

Professor, ChemistLos Alamos, NM

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Robert B. Duffield was a Researcher at the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1943 to 1946. He later worked at the Argonne National Lab. 

 

Robert B. Duffield’s Timeline
1917 Oct 15th Born in New Jersey.

1940 Graduated from Princeton.

1943 Earned Ph.D. in Chemistry from University of California, Berkeley.

19431946 Worked at Los Alamos Lab.

19461956 Worked as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of Illinois.

19561967 Worked as the Assistant Director,. at the John Jay Hopkins Laboratory of Pure and Applied Science, General Atomics, in California.

19671972 Served as the Director at the Argonne Lab.

19721978 Worked as a researcher at Los Alamos again.

2000 Dec 26th Passed away.

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