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    Lew Kowarski (10 February 1907 – 30 July 1979) was a Russian born and naturalized French physicist. He was a lesser-known but important contributor to...
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    Collège de France in Paris. The team also included Francis Perrin and Lew Kowarski. In 1939 the group measured the mean number of neutrons emitted during...
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    ('European Organization for Nuclear Research') in 1954. According to Lew Kowarski, a former director of CERN, when the name was changed, the abbreviation...
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    with 'w'). The surname may refer to: Felicjan Kowarski (1890–1948), Polish painter and sculptor Lew Kowarski (1907–1979), French physicist Alexander Kovarski...
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    and in April 1939 his team in Paris, including Hans von Halban and Lew Kowarski, reported in the journal Nature that the number of neutrons emitted with...
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    reactor outside of the United States, ZEEP, become operational (see Lew Kowarski). In 1946, NRC closed the Montreal laboratory and focused its resources...
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    and materials to England with Hans von Halban, Moshe Feldenkrais and Lew Kowarski. During the French occupation he took an active part in the French Resistance...
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  • Kossel – Germany (1888–1956) Ashutosh Kotwal – United States (born 1965) Lew Kowarski – France (1907–1979) Hendrik Kramers – Netherlands (1894–1952) Serguei...
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    more experimental demonstrations. French scientists Hans von Halban, Lew Kowarski, and Frédéric Joliot-Curie had demonstrated that uranium bombarded by...
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    suicide a decade later. Shortly before the war, Hans von Halban and Lew Kowarski moved their research on neutron moderation from France to Britain, smuggling...
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