Simon, Francis Eugene

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Simon, Francis Eugene (1893-1956), a German-born British physicist, specialized in low-temperature research. During World War II (1939-1945), he helped develop a technique known as gaseous diffusion for separating different isotopes (forms) of uranium. See Uranium. That development led to the creation of the atomic bomb.

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