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Robert J. Van de Graaff

Robert Jemison Van de Graaff, born December 20, 1901 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, died January 16, 1967 in Boston, Massachusetts. American physicist and instrument maker, professor of physics at Princeton University. Designer of the Van de Graaff generator.

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Biography in German from the Tech University in Munich, http://www1.physik.tu-muenchen.de/~kressier/Bios/Vandegraaff

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