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Hildred Blewett

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Following her retirement from CERN in 1977, Blewett retired to Vancouver. She died on 13 June 2004, and was commemorated by CERN colleagues
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as her thesis supervisor. However, due to the United States entrance to the second world war, her thesis work remained incomplete.
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Blewett married John Blewett in 1936, who was also an accelerator physicist, and later divorced in 1960s.
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Particle accelerators, colliders, and the story of high energy physics charming the cosmic snake
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American science in an age of anxiety : scientists, anticommunism, and the cold war
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Blewett was born on 28 May 1911 in Toronto, Ontario. She graduated from the
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who return to the field after a break in their careers.
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Ontario, Canada
Vancouver, Canada
University of Toronto
Cornell University
John P. Blewett
Accelerator physics
General Electric
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Argonne National Laboratory
CERN
Doctoral advisor
Hans Bethe
accelerator physicist
University of Toronto
BA
physics
mathematics
Cornell University
Hans Bethe
General Electric
John Blewett
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Proton Synchrotron
Argonne National Laboratory
CERN
Maria Fidecaro
Christine Sutton
American Physical Society
women physicists

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