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George Ewan fonds
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1963-2000 (Creation)
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- Ewan, George T.
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0.63 m of textual records
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Dr. George T. Ewan was a professor (emeritus) of Subatomic Physics and Particle Astrophysics at Queen's University. Dr. Ewan earned his BSc in Physics in 1948, and his PhD Nuclear Physics in 1952, both from the University of Edinburgh. He was a founding member of the SNO collaboration and the joint-leader of the project with H.C. Chen, University of California at Irvine. He served in this position during the preparation of the proposal and until funding was received in January 1990. He was Chairman of the SNO Management Committee from 1990 to 1999.
His earlier work before SNO involved the development of Ge(Li) detectors at Chalk River with A.J. Tavendale for which they received the Radiation Industry award of the American Nuclear Society. He also built with R.L. Graham and J.S. Geiger the world's highest resolution beta-ray spectrometer. He has published more than 100 scientific papers. Dr. Ewan passed away in Kingston on December 7 2020.
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Fonds consists of material related to his work with the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO), and his time as a Professor of Physics in the Department of Physics, Queen's University at Kingston.
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Good to excellent
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Donated by G. Ewan, 2015
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- English
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- Latin
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Open
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See also the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Collection
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- Created on 04-08-2017. Last updated 15-03-2018. Archivist: Jeremy Heil
- Paul Banfield.