Henry Shull Arms
Henry Shull Arms (1912–1972) was an American and later British physicist and engineer. He worked in the British and Allied programmes to make a nuclear weapon and later developed civilian nuclear reactors in the UK.
Early life and education
He was born in
Spokane. He studied mechanical engineering and physics at the University of Idaho and, aged 24, joined Oxford in 1936 on a Rhodes Scholarship, where he took an honours degree in physics. He worked on low-temperature physics - through the demagnetization of salts - under German and Hungarian Jewish refugees Francis Simon and Nicholas Kurti at the Clarendon Laboratory.[1][2][3][4]
Academic career
On the outbreak of
Windscale to produce military plutonium. He became Deputy Chief Engineer of the Capenhurst uranium enrichment plant.[1][2][5][6][7]
In 1953, he became Chief Development Engineer at the
Hinckley Point, Somerset (which opened in 1966). Arms became a naturalised British citizen in 1955.[1][2][8][9]
He died aged 60, survived by his English-born wife and two children.[1][2]
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References
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- ^ a b c d "Profile: Dr. H. S. Arms: Learned a new profession in his forties". The New Scientist. 2 (50). 31 October 1957.
- ^ "The Life and Hard Times of Henry Shull Arms". www.cs.cornell.edu. Retrieved 4 June 2021.
- ISBN 9781845457211.
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- ^ Laucht, Christoph (2012). Elemental Germans: Klaus Fuchs, Rudolf Peierls and the Making of British Nuclear Culture 1939–59. Basingstoke: Macmillan.
- ^ Gowing, Margaret (1964). Britain and Atomic Energy 1939–1945. London: Macmillan.
- ^ "The Electrical Review". Electrical Review. 178 (9–17): 638. 1966.
- ^ "NATURALISATION" (PDF). www.thegazette.co.uk. Retrieved 5 June 2021.