Herbert Chermside Pollock
Herbert Chermside Pollock (June 13, 1913 - November 24, 2000) was a distinguished physicist at General Electric who made major contributions to early research on nuclear energy. During World War II, Dr. Pollock was recruited for The Manhattan Project and served with a group of GE scientists at the University of California Radiation Laboratory.
He was named as a Rhodes Scholar to Oxford University on January 8, 1934. In 1934, his parents lived in the Meadowbrook Hills section of Charlottesville. [1]
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Biography
Herbert Chermside Pollock was born in Staunton, Virginia in 1913, the only son of Mabel Chermside and Dr. James King Pollock. After graduating from high school in Morristown, New Jersey, he attended The University of Virginia where, in 1933, he graduated with a B.A. in physics. The next year he won a Rhodes Scholarship at Balliol College, Oxford, England; he earned his doctorate in physics in 1937. Upon his return home, Dr. Pollock was hired by the General Electric Research Laboratory in Schenectady, New York. He and Dr. Kenneth Kingdon worked on separating the isotope, uranium-235, from natural uranium. In 1939, they succeeded in isolating a sample of U-235 weighing a few hundred-millionths of a gram.
He had a distinguished career as a physicist who was instrumental in early research into nuclear energy. He died on November 24, 2000. [2]
References
- ↑ Web. Pollock, Rhodes Scholar, Stops at Home Here Short While Today, Daily Progress Digitized Microfilm, Lindsay family, January 9, 1934, retrieved February 23, 2023. Print. January 9, 1934 page 3.
- ↑ Web. POLLOCK, HERBERT CHERMSIDE, Obituary, New Haven Register, New Haven, Connecticut, November 30, 2000, retrieved February 23, 2023.