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American chemist
John Lafayette Magee (October 28, 1914 – December 16, 2005) was an American chemist known for his work on kinetic models of
radiation chemistry ,
[2]
[3] especially the
Samuel-Magee model for describing
radiolysis in solution.
Education and career
Magee obtained his
A.B. at
Mississippi College in 1935,
M.S. at
Vanderbilt University in 1936, and his
Ph.D. in chemistry at
University of Wisconsin in 1939, under the supervision of
Farrington Daniels . He then worked with
Henry Eyring at
Princeton University during his postdoctoral research. Between 1943 and 1946, he worked at the
Los Alamos National Laboratory on the
Manhattan Project . Afterwards, he moved to
Argonne National Laboratory . In 1948, he joined the Department of Chemistry at
University of Notre Dame at the invitation of
Milton Burton and became a full professor in 1953.
[4]
[5] He became the director of the Radiation Laboratory at Notre Dame between 1971 and 1975. He moved to
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory afterwards, conducting research on the biological effects of
ionizing radiation . He retired from Berkeley in 1986.
Magee was elected president of the
Radiation Research Society for the year 1967, and he became a fellow of the
American Physical Society in 1976.
Bibliography
Paper series
Magee, John L. (1951).
"Theory of Radiation Chemistry. I. Some Effects of Variation in Ionization Density 1,2" . Journal of the American Chemical Society . 73 (7): 3270–3275.
doi :
10.1021/ja01151a082 .
ISSN
0002-7863 .
Samuel, Aryeh H.; Magee, John L. (1953).
"Theory of Radiation Chemistry. II. Track Effects in Radiolysis of Water" . The Journal of Chemical Physics . 21 (6): 1080–1087.
Bibcode :
1953JChPh..21.1080S .
doi :
10.1063/1.1699113 .
ISSN
0021-9606 .
Ganguly, A. K.; Magee, J. L. (1956).
"Theory of Radiation Chemistry. III. Radical Reaction Mechanism in the Tracks of Ionizing Radiations" . The Journal of Chemical Physics . 25 (1): 129–134.
Bibcode :
1956JChPh..25..129G .
doi :
10.1063/1.1742803 .
ISSN
0021-9606 .
Monchick, L.; Magee, J. L.; Samuel, A. H. (1957).
"Theory of Radiation Chemistry. IV. Chemical Reactions in the General Track Composed of N Particles" . The Journal of Chemical Physics . 26 (4): 935–941.
Bibcode :
1957JChPh..26..935M .
doi :
10.1063/1.1743438 .
ISSN
0021-9606 .
Mozumder, A.; Magee, J. L. (1966).
"Theory of Radiation Chemistry. VII. Structure and Reactions in Low LET Tracks" . The Journal of Chemical Physics . 45 (9): 3332–3341.
Bibcode :
1966JChPh..45.3332M .
doi :
10.1063/1.1728111 .
ISSN
0021-9606 .
Mozumder, A.; Magee, J. L. (1967).
"Theory of Radiation Chemistry. VIII. Ionization of Nonpolar Liquids by Radiation in the Absence of External Electric Field" . The Journal of Chemical Physics . 47 (3): 939–945.
Bibcode :
1967JChPh..47..939M .
doi :
10.1063/1.1712059 .
ISSN
0021-9606 .
Mozumder, A.; Chatterjee, A.; Magee, J. L. (1968). "Theory of Radiation Chemistry. IX. Model and Structure of Heavy Particle Tracks in Water". In Hart, Edwin J. (ed.).
Radiation Chemistry . Advances in Chemistry. Vol. 81. WASHINGTON, D. C.: AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY. pp. 27–48.
doi :
10.1021/ba-1968-0081.ch002 .
ISBN
978-0-8412-0082-1 .
Reviews
Books
See also
References
^ Mozumder, A. (1999),
"Spur Theory of Radiation Chemical Yields" , Fundamentals of Radiation Chemistry , Elsevier, pp. 199–245,
doi :
10.1016/b978-012509390-3/50007-2 ,
ISBN
978-0-12-509390-3 , retrieved 2022-05-08
^ Davidson, Keay (30 December 2005).
"John Magee -- worked on atomic bomb, opposed its use" . SFGATE . Retrieved 2022-05-06 .
^
"John L. Magee, 91; Chemist Worked on the Manhattan Project" . Los Angeles Times . 3 January 2006. Retrieved 2022-05-06 .
^
"John Lafayette Magee Obituary (2005) East Bay Times" . Legacy.com . Retrieved 2022-05-06 .
^ Mozumder, A.; Thomas, J. K. (2006).
"IN MEMORIAM" . Radiation Research . 166 (1): 122–123.
Bibcode :
2006RadR..166..122M .
doi :
10.1667/RR3565.1 .
ISSN
0033-7587 .
S2CID
198153171 .
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