William Ralph Smythe

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1923-1964 Physics California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 
Area:
electromagnetism
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(1893 - 1988)
http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/241/1/retiring.pdf
https://books.google.com/books?id=d_gWAQAAMAAJ
http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu//full/1921ApJ....54..133S/0000139.000.html
Smythe invented the ion-velocity spectrometer, used in mass spectrometry

Mean distance: 10.81 (cluster 21)
 
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Henry Gordon Gale grad student 1921 Chicago
 (The spectrum of fluorine.)

Children

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Charles Hard Townes grad student 1939 Caltech
Charles Harold Wilts grad student 1948 Caltech
William Alvin Baum grad student 1950 Caltech (Astronomy Tree)
Walter E. Millett post-doc 1950 Caltech
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Townes CH, Smythe WR. (1939) The spin of carbon thirteen Physical Review. 56: 1210-1213
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