History: Robert Cornog, physicist

[Mike Grissom <mikeg@SLAC.Stanford.EDU>]

The following obituary appeared in the 8/9/98 San
Jose Mercury News:

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Robert Cornog, physicist

SANTA MONICA (AP) - Robert Alden Cornog, a physicist
and engineer who helped develop the atomic bomb, has
died of pneumonia. He was 80.

Mr. Cornog died July 17, his daughter, Ann Tidwell,
said Friday.

Born in Portland, Ore., Mr. Cornog grew up in Iowa City
and earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering
at the University of Iowa.

He worked on the design of Boulder Dam for the federal
government and later obtained his physics doctorate at
the University of California-Berkeley, where he and
Luis Alvarez made co-discoveries about helium and
hydrogen isotopes, including the radioactivity of
tritium.

During World War II, Mr. Cornog worked on the Manhattan
Project to develop the atomic bomb and became chief
engineer of the team's ordnance division.

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