Nationality United States Known for Duane-Hunt law Influenced Alfred Lande Influences Madame Curie Fields Physics | Alma mater Berlin University Name William Duane Role Physicist | |
Born February 17, 1872Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA ( 1872-02-17 ) Died March 7, 1935, United States of America Education Humboldt University of Berlin Similar People Marie Curie, Walther Nernst, Pierre Curie |
William Duane (February 17, 1872, at Philadelphia – March 7, 1935, in Devon, Pennsylvania) was an American physicist. A coworker of Marie Curie, he developed a method for generating quantities of radon in the laboratory.
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Studies
doctor father: Max Planck
Academic career
research activities
Death
Starting in 1925, Duane began suffering a continual decline in health brought on by diabetes. This culminated in his death on 7 March 1935 due to his second paralytic stroke.
Honours and awards
The physics department building in the University of Colorado Boulder is named after him. In 1923 Duane was awarded the Comstock Prize in Physics from the National Academy of Sciences.
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