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Samuel King Allison

1900 - 1965

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Samuel King Allison (November 13, 1900 – September 15, 1965) was an American physicist, most notable for his role in the Manhattan Project, for which he was awarded the Medal for Merit. A professor who studied X-rays, he was director of the Metallurgical Laboratory from 1943 until 1944, and later worked at the Los Alamos Laboratory — where he "rode herd" on the final stages of the project as part of the "Cowpuncher Committee", and read the countdown for the detonation of the Trinity nuclear test. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Samuel King Allison has received more than 56,821 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Samuel King Allison is the 784th most popular physicist, the 10,948th most popular biography from United States and the 176th most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Samuel King Allison ranks 784 out of 851Before him are James M. Bardeen, Juan Ignacio Cirac Sasturain, John Houghton, Ronald Drever, Bertrand Halperin, and James Hartle. After him are Daniel Kleppner, John Pendry, Robert L. Forward, Ayşe Erzan, Werner Israel, and Léon Rosenfeld.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Samuel King Allison ranks 312Before him are Émile Druart, Ricardo Cortez, Jorge Sarmiento, Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, Bernabé Rivera, and Henri Cohen. After him are Sverre Sørsdal, Renata Viganò, Charles Farrell, Alice Terry, Beatrix Loughran, and Helen Gahagan Douglas. Among people deceased in 1965, Samuel King Allison ranks 227Before him are Alfred Lane, Miller Anderson, Luigi Maiocco, Geeta Bali, Lorraine Hansberry, and Sida Košutić. After him are Eetje Sol, Gilbert Colgate, Vajiha Samadova, Irving Bacon, Óscar Cristi, and Daniel Frank.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Samuel King Allison ranks 10,948 out of 20,380Before him are Stone Gossard (1966), Kenneth Rogoff (1953), Robert P. Patterson (1891), Cameron Monaghan (1993), Jordan Mechner (1964), and Frances Willard (1839). After him are George Henry Thomas (1816), Marguerite MacIntyre (1965), Steven R. McQueen (1988), Faith Evans (1973), Ted Sorensen (1928), and Daniel Kleppner (1932).

Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Samuel King Allison ranks 176Before him are Edward C. Stone (1936), Stanton T. Friedman (1934), Erwin Hahn (1921), James M. Bardeen (1939), Bertrand Halperin (1941), and James Hartle (1939). After him are Daniel Kleppner (1932), Robert L. Forward (1932), Sarah Frances Whiting (1847), Robert Detweiler (1930), Frank Press (1924), and David J. Griffiths (1942).