Jesse Beams

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American physicist (1898-1977) at University of Virginia.

Beams' contributions include the first linear electron accelerator, the magnetic ultracentrifuge and application of the ultracentrifuge to the separation of Uranium isotopes. He holds many patents in magnetic bearings and ultracentrifuges.

Patents of Jesse Beams
Inventor(s)	Year	Patent No.	Invention Title
Trotter, Woodstock, Beams	1935	2,016,825	Air Conditioning
Beams, Holmes	1941	2,256,937	Suspension of Rotatable Bodies
Masket, Snoddy, Beams	1949	2,478,663	Projectile Testing Machine
Beams	1950	2,521,112	Method and Apparatus for Separating Fluids by Thermal Diffusion
Beams	1950	2,521,891	Valve
Beams, Snoddy, Hoxton	1950	2,525,197	Thermal Flowmeter
Beams, Morton	1954	2,666,363	Transmission Line Kerr Cell
Beams	1954	2,691,306	Magnetically Supported Rotating Bodies
Beams, Snoddy	1956	2,763,155	High Altitude Burner Simulator
Beams, Snoddy	1960	2,948,572	Centrifuges
Beams	1962	3,041,482	Apparatus for Rotating Freely Suspended Bodies
Beams	1962	3,066,849	High Vacuum Pump System
Beams	1965	3,196,694	Magnetic Suspension System
Goss, Porter, Roberts, Tuve, Beams, Selvidge	1975	3,908,933	Guided Missile

[edit] Publications

• Beams, J. and Haynes, F., The Separation of Isotopes by Centrifuging, (Sept 1936) Phys. Rev., vol. 50, Issue 5, pp. 491-492.

• Beams, J., Production and Use of High Centrifugal Fields, (1954) Science, vol. 120, Issue 3121, pp. 619-625.

[edit] See Also

Orders of magnitude (angular velocity)

magnetic bearing history

[edit] References

• http://lsro.epfl.ch/cfmd/