Lew Kowarski was a lesser-known but important contributor to nuclear science.
10 Facts About Lew Kowarski
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Lew Kowarski was born in Saint Petersburg to Nicholas Kowarski, a businessman and the Ukrainian singer Olga Vlassenko.
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Lew Kowarski received a Chemical Engineering degree from the University of Lyon and an Sc.
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Lew Kowarski joined Frederic Joliot-Curie's group in 1934, where Hans von Halban came in 1937.
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Just before the invasions, the records and papers of Frederic Joliot, Hans von Halban and Lew Kowarski were smuggled out of France, and eventually to England.
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Lew Kowarski then worked in the Montreal Laboratory in Canada, but only after Halban had been replaced as Director by John Cockcroft, as he did not want to work under Halban.
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Lew Kowarski supervised the construction of Canada's first nuclear reactor at the Chalk River Laboratories in 1945.
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Lew Kowarski came back to France to supervise the first two French reactors in 1948 and 1952.
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In 1940, James Chadwick forwarded the work of two French scientists, Hans von Halban and Lew Kowarski, who worked in Cambridge, to the Royal Society.
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Lew Kowarski asked that the papers be held, as they were not appropriate for publication during the war.