Sidney H. Liebson

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sidney H. Liebson (born July 9,1920^[1]) received his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland in 1947. His thesis was on the discharge mechanism of Geiger Muller counters. Liebson received a US Navy award for developing the first equipment used to identify enemy radar.

Liebson participated in atomic bomb testing in the Pacific, developing radiation detectors that were used to measure bomb characteristics. In a significant test, his detectors validated the feasibility of making the hydrogen bomb. At a time when electronics had not been able to make measurements with nano second accuracy, he developed several techniques to accomplish this accuracy for measuring organic fluorescence decay times and organic scintillation pulse widths by indirect means. His 1947 invention of the halogen counter^[2] occurred while he was working on his thesis.^[3]

References

↑ "United States Public Records Index,". FamilySearch. Retrieved 14 October 2013.
↑ Ghosh. Introduction to Measurements and Instrumentation. PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd. pp. 624–. ISBN 978-81-203-3858-6. Retrieved 4 March 2011.
↑ S. H. Liebson (1947) "The discharge mechanism of self-quenching Geiger-Mueller counters," Physical Review, vol. 72, no. 7, pages 602-608.

Persondata
Name	Liebson, Sidney H.
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	July 9, 1920
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike; additional terms may apply for the media files.