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Abstract/Description: Henry Hurwitz outdoors standing at Harvard with a Yo-Yo
Date Created: 1941
Credit Line: Photograph by Samuel Goudsmit, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Goudsmit Collection
Catalog ID: Hurwitz Henry B3
Henry Hurwitz Jr. (1918 – 1992), was a research physicist at General Electric Company who pioneered the theory and design of nuclear power plants and helped engineer the reactor for the Seawolf nuclear submarine.
He worked on the bomb at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico from 1943 to 1946, then helped design power plants and set safety standards that were adopted worldwide. Fortune magazine in 1954 called him "probably the most brilliant student of nuclear reactor theory in industry."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Hurwitz_Jr.
