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American physicist and inventor of the Van de Graaff generator, a type of high-voltage electrostatic generator that serves as a type of particle accelerator.This device has found widespread use not only in atomic research but also in medicine and industry.

Robert Jemison Van de Graaffwas born on December 20, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. His mother was Minnie Cherokee Hargrove and his father was Adrian Sebastian Van de Graaff. Robert attended the Tuscaloosa public schools and then attended the University of Alabama where he received a BS degree in and an MS degree in Both degrees were in mechanical engineering.

After graduating from college he worked for the Alabama Power Company for a year as a research assistant.

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He studied at the Sorbonne in Paris from to and while there, attended lectures by Marie Curie on radiation. In he went to Oxford University in England as a Rhodes Scholar. At Oxford he received a BS in physics in and a Ph.D. in p