Boyce McDaniel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Boyce McDaniel

American physicist

Date of Birth: 11-Jun-1917

Place of Birth: Brevard, North Carolina, United States

Date of Death: 08-May-2002

Profession: physicist, university teacher, nuclear physicist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Boyce Dawkins McDaniel (June 11, 1917 – May 8, 2002) was an American nuclear physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and later directed the Cornell University Laboratory of Nuclear Studies (LNS).
McDaniel was skilled in constructing "atom smashing" devices to study the fundamental structure of matter and helped to build the most powerful particle accelerators of his time.
Together with his graduate student, he invented the pair spectrometer. During World War II, McDaniel used his electronics expertise to help develop cyclotrons used to separate Uranium isotopes.
McDaniel is also noted as having performed the final check on the first atomic bomb prior to its detonation in the Trinity test.