Ralph Arthur James was an American chemist at the University of Chicago who co-discovered the elements curium and americium. Later he worked at UCLA and for the Lawrence Livermore laboratory in California.
He also worked on niobium and nuclear... Wikipedia
Born: September 23, 1920, Salt Lake City, UT
Died: February 24, 1973 (age 52 years), Alamo, CA
Education: University of California, Berkeley (1948)
Ralph Arthur James was an American chemist at the University of Chicago who co-discovered the elements curium (1944) and americium (1944–1945).
Dr. James' R&D efforts have focused on basic and applied research devoted to semiconductor materials, radiation detectors, and imaging systems. He has co- ...
D. degrees in applied physics from Caltech. He currently serves as the Associate Laboratory Director for Science and Technology and the Chief Research Officer ...
Ralph James served as the SPIE 2010 President. Upcoming Presentations.
Ralph A. James was one of the four men associated with the synthesizing and discovering of the chemical element Americium.