Gustaf Ising (or ''Gustav Ising'' in some publications), (19 February 1883 in

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– 5 February 1960 in

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), was a Swedish

accelerator physicist An accelerator physicist is a scientist who contributes to the field of Accelerator physics, involving the fundamental physical mechanisms underlying beams of charged particles accelerated to high energies and the structures and materials needed to ...

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 A linear particle accelerator (often shortened to linac) is a type of particle accelerator that accelerates charged subatomic particles or ions to a high speed by subjecting them to a series of oscillating electric potentials along a linear ...

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

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, also starting the development of cyclic accelerator structures like the

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. He was elected to the Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1935, being a member of the

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from 1947–1953, together with former Nobel Laureate and chairman Manne Siegbahn,

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, Erik Hulthen, Axel Edvin Lindh,

Ivar Waller Ivar Waller (11 June 1898 – 12 April 1991) was a Swedish professor of theoretical physics at Uppsala University. He developed the theory of X-ray scattering by lattice vibrations of a crystal, building upon the prior work of Peter Debye. The De ...

, and Gudmund Borelius.

References

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