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Augustus Prince

1924–2018

United States

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Augustus “Gus” Prince was an American nuclear scientist at the Brookhaven National Laboratory who developed the standard methodology for the analysis of deformed nuclei. He was the first Black radarman in the Navy, having served as a second class officer radarman during World War II from 1944 to 1945. He died on January 5, 2018.

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