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4 unusual facts about Lew Kowarski


Bertrand Goldschmidt

He later joined the Anglo-Canadian nuclear program (group of Montreal) in Canada where he joined other Frenchman such as Hans von Halban, Jules Gueron, Pierre Auger, and Lew Kowarski who would join the project in 1944.

Lew Kowarski

He supervised the construction of Canada's first nuclear reactor (ZEEP) at the Chalk River Laboratories in 1945.

Kowarski then worked in the Montreal Laboratory in Canada, but only after Halban had been replaced as Director by John Cockcroft, as he did not want to work under Halban.

A staff member of CERN (Geneva) since participating in its formation in 1953, he was a Decorated Officer Legion of Honor, Fellow of the American Nuclear Society, and a recipient of citation and prize from the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.



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