| 词条 | Alfred Maddock |
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| honorific_prefix = | name = Alfred Gavin Maddock | honorific_suffix = | image = | image_size = | image_upright = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth year |1917}} | birth_place = Bedford Park, London | death_date = {{death date|2009|04|05 |1917 |df=yes}} (aged 91)[1] | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | home_town = | nationality = | fields = Inorganic chemistry, radiochemistry, spectroscopy | workplaces = | patrons = | education = | alma_mater = Imperial College, London | thesis_title = | thesis_url = | thesis_year = 1942 | doctoral_advisor = H. J. Emeléus | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = | influences = | influenced = | awards = | spouse = | partner = | children = }} Alfred Gavin "Alfie" Maddock (1917-2009) was an English inorganic chemist, radiochemist and spectroscopist who worked on the Tube Alloys Project and the Manhattan Project during World War II. Those projects resulted in the development of the atomic bomb. He may be best known for, during World War II, spilling Canada's entire supply of plutonium onto a wooden laboratory bench, and for recovering it by wet chemistry. He also had a distinguished, though less eventful, post-war academic career. BiographyMaddock was born in Bedford Park, a garden suburb of London, and was educated at Latymer Upper School.[2][2] He won a state scholarship to study chemistry at the Royal College of Science (RCS), then a constituent part of Imperial College London. After his undergraduate education, he continued on to postgraduate studies at RCS under the supervision of inorganic chemist Professor H. J. Emeléus. Those studies related to silicon hydrides, and he was awarded his PhD in 1942. During the early years of World War II, his other studies included methods of protection against arsine, which had been proposed as a chemical warfare agent. He also studied the toxicity of volatile compounds of fluorine; which resulted in his suffering an acute case of poisoning. He and Lord Rothschild devised a device based on mercuric chloride which was used by Allied parachutists into France.[2]{{efn|The source is silent as to the nature of that device. There may be a grim reason for that silence. The best-known characteristic of mercuric chloride is that it is a swift-acting poison. Some captured SOE parachutists may have been glad that they had been equipped with a speedy means of release.}} In 1941, he got to know several French nuclear physicists from the Curie Institute in Paris who had escaped the Nazi invasion. He initially worked with them at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, and later moved with them and others to Ottawa, Canada, where he helped build a heavy water reactor, as part of what was first known as the Tube Alloys Project and later as the Manhattan Project.[1] It was during that time that he spilled Canada's supply of plutonium (about 10mg) onto a wooden laboratory bench. He pragmatically sawed it into pieces, ashed them, and recovered the plutonium by wet chemistry.[3] After the War, he returned to England; was appointed lecturer in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge, where Emeléus now occupied the chair of inorganic chemistry; and was elected Fellow of St Catharine's College. He had a broad range of scientific interests, which included: the chemistry of the actinide elements, in particular plutonium and protactinium; the chemistry associated with nuclear transformation; solvent extraction; radiation of inorganic solids; the chemistry of positronium ions; and Mössbauer spectroscopy, in which he was a pioneer. He was consultant to the International Atomic Energy Agency, and to atomic energy projects in various countries. He published more than 300 scientific papers.[1] Honours and awardsThese include:[1][4]
Notes{{notelist}}References1. ^1 2 3 {{cite web |url=https://mailman.kfki.hu/sympa/arc/mix/2009-04/msg00000.html |title=Alfred Maddock (1917-2009) |first=Frank |last=Berry |date=10 April 2009 |accessdate=15 November 2018}} 2. ^{{cite journal |url=http://chemeducator.org/bibs/0015001/15100237.htm |title=Alfred G. Maddock (1917–2009), An Inspired Radiochemist |website=The Chemical Educator |first1=Jean-Pierre |last1=Adloff |first2=George B. |last2=Kauffman |date=15 June 2010 |accessdate=26 October 2018}} 3. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.quaternary.group.cam.ac.uk/history/radiocarbon/ |title=Radiocarbon dating in Cambridge: some personal recollections |website=Cambridge University |first=E. H. |last=Willis |date=22 September 1996 |accessdate=26 October 2018}} 4. ^1 2 {{cite book |chapterurl=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=fe6iAgAAQBAJ&pg=PP3&lpg=PP3&dq=alfred+maddock&source=bl&ots=WoKbKe9wZj&sig=eKXR2_HKULHy4ajGEh5YGOSVOa8&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjgi5eRhqXeAhVsLMAKHbtXBDg4ChDoATAOegQICRAB#v=onepage&q=alfred%20maddock&f=false| |chapter=Preface |title=Mössbauer Spectroscopy: Principles and Applications |first=A. G. |last=Maddock |year=1997 |publisher=Horwood Publishing |accessdate=26 October 2018}} Further reading and external links
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