Quo Fuit places 3 dated presences for Edwin McMillan across 3 places, from 1907 to 1991.
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Edwin Mattison McMillan (September 18, 1907 – September 7, 1991) was an American physicist credited with being the first to produce a transuranium element, neptunium.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Edwin McMillan was documented, and when
18 September 1907exact date
Redondo Beach, Californiaattested“McMillan was born in Redondo Beach, California, on September 18, 1907, the son of Edwin Harbaugh McMillan and his wife Anna Marie McMillan née Mattison.”source: Wikipedia: Edwin McMillan
1974year
CERNattested“After his retirement from the faculty at Berkeley in 1974, he spent 1974–75 at CERN, where he worked on the g minus 2 experiment to measure the magnetic moment of the muon.”source: Wikipedia: Edwin McMillan
7 September 1991exact date
El Cerrito, Californiaattested“He died at his home in El Cerrito, California, from complications from diabetes on September 7, 1991.”source: Wikipedia: Edwin McMillan
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Places Edwin McMillan is documented in
CERN1 presence · 1974
El Cerrito, California1 presence · 1991
Redondo Beach, California1 presence · 1907
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18 October 1908exact date
Pasadena, Californiamentioned“On October 18, 1908, the family moved to Pasadena, California, where he attended McKinley Elementary School from 1913 to 1918, Grant School from 1918 to 1920, and then Pasadena High School, from which he graduated in 1924.”source: Wikipedia: Edwin McMillan
Princeton Universitymentioned“He then took his Doctor of Philosophy from Princeton University in 1933, writing his thesis on the "Deflection of a Beam of HCI Molecules in a Non-Homogeneous Electric Field" under the supervision of Edward Condon.”source: Wikipedia: Edwin McMillan
12 January 1933exact date
University of California, Berkeleymentioned“With his PhD complete, although it was not formally accepted until January 12, 1933, he accepted an offer from Ernest Lawrence at the University of California, Berkeley, to join the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory, which Lawrence had found…”source: Wikipedia: Edwin McMillan
May 1940month
Washington, DCmentioned“In May 1940, Philip Abelson from the Carnegie Institute in Washington, DC, who had independently also attempted to separate the isotope with the 2.3-day half-life, visited Berkeley for a short vacation, and they began to collaborate.”source: Wikipedia: Edwin McMillan
November 1940month
MIT Radiation Laboratorymentioned“In November 1940, he began working at the MIT Radiation Laboratory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he participated in the development and testing of airborne microwave radar during World War II.”source: Wikipedia: Edwin McMillan
November 1940month
Cambridge, Massachusettsmentioned“In November 1940, he began working at the MIT Radiation Laboratory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he participated in the development and testing of airborne microwave radar during World War II.”source: Wikipedia: Edwin McMillan
November 1940month
Cambridgementioned“In November 1940, he began working at the MIT Radiation Laboratory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he participated in the development and testing of airborne microwave radar during World War II.”source: Wikipedia: Edwin McMillan
7 June 1941exact date
New Haven, Connecticutmentioned“McMillan married Elsie Walford Blumer in New Haven, Connecticut, on June 7, 1941.”source: Wikipedia: Edwin McMillan
August 1941month
San Diegomentioned“McMillan joined the Navy Radio and Sound Laboratory near San Diego in August 1941.”source: Wikipedia: Edwin McMillan
September 1945month
Radiation Laboratorymentioned“The phase stability principle was tested with the old 37-inch cyclotron at Berkeley after McMillan returned to the Radiation Laboratory in September 1945.”source: Wikipedia: Edwin McMillan
1947 to 1971period
United States National Academy of Sciencesmentioned“McMillan was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1947, serving as its chairman from 1968 to 1971.”source: Wikipedia: Edwin McMillan
1952year
American Philosophical Societymentioned“He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1952.”source: Wikipedia: Edwin McMillan
1962year
American Academy of Arts and Sciencesmentioned“He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1962.”source: Wikipedia: Edwin McMillan
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