The Legacy of Robert Van de Graaff

The video discusses notable rethinkers, focusing on Robert Van de Graaff, an American physicist and inventor of the Van de Graaff generator. Born in 1901 in Alabama, he studied engineering and later pursued atomic physics in Paris. He completed his PhD at Oxford and developed the Van de Graaff generator in the 1930s. He worked at MIT and received the T. Bonner Prize in 1965. Van de Graaff's contributions to science continue to be recognized today.

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