About Renate Chasman
Lived 1932 – 1977 (aged 45). Renate Chasman was an American physicist.
Renate Wiener Chasman (January 10, 1932 – October 17, 1977) was a physicist.
She was born Renate Wiener to German Jewish parents in Berlin. Her father, Hans Wiener, was a founder of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. In 1938, the Wiener family fled Nazi Germany through the Netherlands to Sweden, where Wiener grew up and attended school in Stockholm.
In the following years, she facilitated important contributions to the development of particle accelerators, redesigning the alternating-gradient proton synchrotron (AGS). Together with George Kenneth Green, she is known for the invention of the Chasman-Green lattice for synchrotron storage rings.
She died in 1977 from melanoma.
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German born physicist (1932-1977)
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