Gustaf Adolf Ising (; 19 February 1883 - 5 February 1960) was a Swedish

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, and

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Biography

Ising earned his first academic degree (''filosofie kandidat''/Bachelor of Arts) at

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in 1903 and continued studying at

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receiving his Ph.D. in 1919, and receiving an honorary professor title in 1934. He is best known for the invention of the linear accelerator concept in 1924, which is the progenitor of all modern accelerators based on oscillating

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s. His article was then taken up and turned into practice by Rolf Widerøe, also starting the development of cyclic accelerator structures like the cyclotron. He was elected to the

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in 1935, being a member of the

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from 1947 to 1953, together with former Nobel laureate and chairman

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, Svante Arrhenius, Erik Hulthen, Axel Edvin Lindh,

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, and Gudmund Borelius.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ising, Gustaf Swedish physicists Experimental physicists Accelerator physicists 1883 births 1960 deaths