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Milton S. Plesset
Milton S. Plesset
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He won a National Research Council fellowship and for its tenure was attracted to Caltech, where research on cosmic rays was making exciting advances under the leadership of Robert Millikan, and the positron was just in the process of being discovered by Carl Anderson. The great success offinding the positron was followed by a theoretical study by Milton Plesset and Robert Oppenheimer employing the Dirac equation in quantum electrodynamics to show how electron-positron pairs were produced.
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In research, Plesset made significant contributions along the frontierwhere science and engineering meet, leaving the profession with more than one hundred publications of lasting value. The Rayleigh-Plesset equation continues to play a basic role in bubble dynamics, whether used in cavitating flows or in the sack model for atomic nuclei theory.
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In these capacities Milton provided assistance and guidance to the development of effective numerical codes to simulate day-to-day operations of a nuclear reactor and to monitor any emergency situation. He played a leading role in spearheading international cooperation with Japan and Germany on joint programs for model tests of the operation of nuclear reactors and establishing the overall rules for their safeguards.
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