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Published by San Francisco Chronicle from Oct. 14 to Oct. 15, 2011.
| Media Title | Published by San Francisco Chronicle from Oct. 14 to Oct. 15, 2011. |
| Media Notes | Per Fridtjof Dahl A physicist, artist, and historian of modern physics, died in Emeryville, CA, on October 1, 2011 after a long illness. Per Dahl was born at Georgetown Hospital in Washington, D.C., on August 1, 1932. His parents were Odd Dahl, from Drammen, Norway, and Anna Augusta (Vesse) Mathiesen, from Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Dahl was born while his father was working at the Carnegie Institution in Washington, D.C. In 1936, his father saw the war coming and decided to take his family back to Bergen, Norway. He returned to Norway in 1937 to oversee science in Norway during the war. Dahl grew up in Bergen, Norway, from the age of 4 until he was 17. He then came to the U.S. and served three years in the U.S. Army, including two years stationed on Guam in the Pacific. Taking after his father, Dahl was interested in science and physics from an early age. He studied science during his Army years, and after leaving the service he entered the University of Wisconsin, obtaining his Ph.D. in Physics in 1960. His post-doctoral work was done at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark. He then came to the U.S. and served in the U.S. Army, including two years stationed on Guam in the Pacific. He began working at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) in 1963, where he was involved in the design of magnets used in nuclear accelerators. He later worked on the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) project at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and in Texas, and after that project was terminated he returned to work at LBNL in several capacities until 2005. Per is the author of numerous scientific papers and several books: From Nuclear Transmutation to Nuclear Fission, 1932-1939; Heavy Water and the Wartime Race for Nuclear Energy; Flash of the Cathode Rays: A History of J.J. Thomson's Electron; Superconductivity: Its Historical Roots and Development from Mercury to the Ceramic Oxides; and Ludvig Colding and the Conservation of Energy Principle. Throughout his life, he was able to pursue his love for physics, art and his family. While at Brookhaven, he was a president of the South Bay Art Association and also the president of the Brookhaven National Laboratory Art Society. He was a fellow of the American Physical Society, past president of the LBNL Retirees Group, and a volunteer at the Western Aerospace Museum in Oakland. He is survived by his devoted wife of 45 years, Eleanor, and two sons: Erik (married to Christa), of Pebble Beach, CA; and Thomas (married to Jo) and two grandchildren, Emily and Alex, of Westford, MA. Donations in lieu of flowers may be sent to the Sutter VNA and Hospice of Emeryville, or the American Cancer Society. |
| Eier av original/Kilde | San Francisco Chronicle |
| Dato | 14 Okt 2011 |
| Linket til | Per Fridtjof Dahl (Død) |
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