Draft:Seymour Bernstein, physicist (1909-1981)

Seymour Bernstein (1909-1981) was an American physicist and one of the pioneer workers of nuclear energy. He contributed to the fields of nuclear energy, neutron physics, nuclear physics, nuclear reactor physics, solid-state physics, cryogenics, X-rays and particle physics.

Career
Bernstein received his Bachelor of Science in Engineering in 1930 from the University of Illinois at Urbana and his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Chicago in 1939. His doctoral dissertation was entitled | X-ray diffraction by a film of counted molecular layers.

Bernstein was invited by Professor Aruthur Compton to become a member of the original research team of the Metallurgical Laboratory of the University of Chicago. Bernstein served as a Research Associate there from January 1, 1942 until sometime in 1944. From 1944-1964 he was Chief Physicist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. During 1948-1961 he also served as lecturer at the University of Tennessee. Bernstein was a Visiting Professor of Physics at the University of Miami in Coral Gables in 1961-1962 and a Visiting Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory in the summers of 1965, 1967 and 1968. In 1964 he became Professor of Physics at University of Illinois at Chicago Circle. Bernstein collaborated with a number of well-known physicists including Leo Szilard, Ernest O. Wollan, Julius Ashkin, and Bernard T. Feld.