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Van De Graaff, Robert Jemison
(b. Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 20 December 1901; d Boston Massachusetts, 16 Januaey 1967), physics.
Van de Graaff was born and raised in the cotton country near Tuscaloosa.
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He studied engineering at the University of Alabama, where he earned the B. S. in 1922 and M.S. in 1923, and physics at the Sorbonne and at Oxford, where he earned the Ph.D. in 1928, and where he conceived the invention of his belt-charged electrostatic high-voltage generator.
He was at the threshold of his scientific carrier when, as a National Research fellow at Princeton, he constructed the first working model of the generator, operating at 80,000 volts, in 1929.
Under the encouragement of Karl T.
Compton, then president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Van de Graaff came to MIT as a research associate in 1931 to start a series of developments of his invention, for the precisely controllable acceleration of charged nuclear particles and electrons to high velocities fo