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M. Elaine Toms
Marian Elaine Toms (May 17, 1917 – June 25, 2019) was a Korean-born American physicist at the United States Naval Research Laboratory known for her experiments on photodisintegration of metals and for her ''Bibliography of Photonuclear Reactions''. Life and work Toms was born in Seoul, at the time part of Korea under Japanese rule, Japanese-occupied Korea. She was one of three children of J. U. Selwyn Toms, a Presbyterian minister originally from South Australia who had been stationed in Korea with his wife Ella Burt Toms beginning in 1908. The Toms family returned to the US in 1923. Toms became an undergraduate at Wilson College (Pennsylvania), Wilson College, a small Presbyterian school in Pennsylvania, where she graduated in 1939. During World War II, she served as a lieutenant in the WAVES. Her work with the WAVES included basic training at Smith College, and the study of radar at Harvard University, before going on active duty until 1946. In that year she moved to the Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Naval Research Laboratory
The United States Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) is the corporate research laboratory for the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps. It was founded in 1923 and conducts basic scientific research, applied research, technological development and prototyping. The laboratory's specialties include plasma physics, space physics, materials science, and tactical electronic warfare. NRL is one of the first US government scientific R&D laboratories, having opened in 1923 at the instigation of Thomas Edison, and is currently under the Office of Naval Research. As of 2016, NRL was a United States Navy Working Capital Fund, Navy Working Capital Fund activity, which means it is not a line-item in the US Federal Budget. Instead of direct funding from Congress, all costs, including overhead, were recovered through sponsor-funded research projects. NRL's research expenditures were approximately $1 billion per year. Research The Naval Research Laboratory conducts a wide v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
