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Robert Alden Cornog

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Robert Alden Cornog

Birth
Death
17 Jul 1998 (aged 86)
Burial
Iowa City, Johnson County, Iowa, USA Add to Map
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He was a physicist and engineer who collaborated in discovering the radioactivity of tritium (hydrogen-3) and discovering that helium-3 occurs in nature.

Apparently he is buried with his mom and dad. Jacob Cornog was a professor of chemistry at the University of Iowa for most of his life. Emma Ripley Cornog wrote a family history, "Ripley and Allied Families."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Cornog

He was a physicist and engineer who collaborated in discovering the radioactivity of tritium (hydrogen-3) and discovering that helium-3 occurs in nature.

Apparently he is buried with his mom and dad. Jacob Cornog was a professor of chemistry at the University of Iowa for most of his life. Emma Ripley Cornog wrote a family history, "Ripley and Allied Families."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Cornog



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