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Argonne National Laboratory: In Memoriam - Remembering 'Father of Spallation' John M. 'Jack' Carpenter
March 16, 2020
ARGONNE, Illinois, March 16 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory issued the following news release on March 13:

John M. "Jack" Carpenter, an American nuclear engineer who pioneered using accelerator-based pulsed neutrons for scientific research, died on March 10. He was 84.

Jack is perhaps best known for his development of the short-pulsed spallation neutron source concept. It was prototyped, fully realized with the Intense Pulse . . .

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