Jesse W. Beams

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Jesse W. Beams

American physicist

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The American physicist Jesse W. Beams used a gas centrifuge to separate isotopes, specifically the isotopes of chlorine, for the first time in 1936. Much subsequent work focused on the separation of ²³⁵UF₆ from ²³⁸UF₆, for which the gas centrifuge promised considerable savings in energy costs. Today, something…
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The American physicist Jesse W. Beams used a gas centrifuge to separate isotopes, specifically the isotopes of chlorine, for the first time in 1936. Much subsequent work focused on the separation of ²³⁵UF₆ from ²³⁸UF₆, for which the gas centrifuge promised considerable savings in energy costs. Today, something…
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