George T. Reynolds
American astronomer
Died when: 87 years 327 days (1054 months)Star Sign: Gemini
George Thomas Reynolds (May 27, 1917 – April 19, 2005) was an American physicist best known for his accomplishments in particle physics, biophysics and environmental science.
Reynolds received his PhD in physics from Princeton in 1943, writing a thesis of the propagation of shock waves.During World War II, he joined the United States Navy, and served with the Manhattan Project.
He worked with George Kistiakowsky on the design of the explosive lenses required by the implosion-type nuclear weapon.He was involved in the investigation of the Port Chicago disaster, served with Project Alberta on Tinian, and was part of the Manhattan Project team sent to Hiroshima and Nagasaki to inspect the bomb damage.
After the war, Reynolds began a long academic career at Princeton University.He was director of the Princeton's High Energy Physics Program from 1948 until 1970, when he became the first director of Princeton's new Center for Environmental Studies.
He combined his interest in the sea and science by working during the summers at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, where he studied marine bioluminescence.
He also worked at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
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