Lyman G. Parratt (May 17, 1908 - June 29, 1995) was an American physicist. He is known for various research using x-rays.
Parratt was born in
Salt Lake City
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In 1954, Parratt used x-rays to explore the surface of copper-coated glass, thereby creating the field of
X-ray reflectometry.
[L. G. Parratt]
''Phys. Rev.'' 95, 359 (1954).
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He died in Redmond, Oregon
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, aged 87.
See also
* Günther Porod, Austrian x-ray physicist with somewhat similar name.
References
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1908 births
1995 deaths
20th-century American physicists
People from Salt Lake City
Fellows of the American Physical Society