Ruben, Samuel

Ruben, Samuel. Handbook of the Elements, 3rd Edition. La Salle, IL Open Court Publishing Company, 1999. 

Ruben Samuel - bom Charles Rubenstein (1913-1943) US chemist at the University of California, Berkeley. Together with Kamen he discovered carbon-14. 

Ruben cell — This is a zinc-mercuric oxide alkaline cell, more commonly called a mercury -> battery, a type of primary (nonrechargeable) cell, developed by Samuel Ruben during World War II in response to a requirement for batteries with a high capacity-to-volume ratio which would withstand storage under tropical conditions. It was licensed to the RR. Mallory Co., which... 

Kamen and his associates, notably Samuel Ruben, began the search for by exposing graphite to deuteron bombardment in the 37-in. Berkeley cyclotron. Following the bombardment, the graphite was burned to CO2, precipitated out as CaC02, and used to coat the inside of a screen-wall counter of a type that Libby had used in his doctoral research... 

At Berkeley, Kenneth Pitzer and Samuel Ruben recommended use of nontoxic butane instead of highly toxic phosgene for the field studies of gas cloud dissipation. Phosgene is poisonous, dangerous to handle, and difficult to analyze in the field. Butane has similar thermodynamic properties and would be transported by air in the same way as phosgene. Sam Ruben and Bill Gwinn had developed a simple, ingenious, practical way to measure and record trace amounts of butane in air. In the late summer and early... 

The occasion and timing of Professor Birge s announcement implicitly prophesied that Samuel Ruben and Martin Kamen would, in the future, be strong candidates for the Nobel Prize for this discovery. At age twenty-six, Sam Ruben and Martin Kamen were world-famous in physics. 

In the middle of Sam s last semester as an undergraduate student, on September 28, 1935, Helena West and Samuel Ruben were married. The newly wedded pair is shown in Figure 3.3.A. 

We the jury do find that the name of the deceased one was Samuel Ruben, a native of California, aged 29, and that he came to his death on Sept. 28, 1943 at Memorial Hospital, Berkeley, Alameda Coimty, California, and we further find that the death was caused by pulmonary edema, massive and diffuse, due to inhalation of poison gas, dilation of right ventricle, suffered accidentally in his regular line of duty in the Chemical Laboratory on the U. C. Campus, Berkeley, when a glass vial of poison gas accidentally broke. We find death was accidental. 

Laboratory Blast Fatal to U. C. Chemist. Dr. Samuel Ruben, 30, considered probably the most outstanding young experimental chemist in the country, died yesterday afternoon in Berkeley fi om the effects of an explosion occurring the day before in the chemical laboratory of the University of California. All details of the accident are held secret because, the university authorities announced, the fatal experiment had a direct bearing on the conduct of the war. ... 

Two University of California scientists who survived the laboratory explosion that fatally injru ed Dr. Samuel Ruben, famed chemist engaged on a secret war project, yesterday were reported recovering and may continue the work. They are Kent Harmon and Robert Vogel. 

One very important application of radioactive isotopes is the determination of the ages of archaeological remains. The pioneer in this type of investigation is the American chemist Willard F. Libby. The radioactive isotope carbon-14, was discovered in 1940 by the American biochemists Samuel Ruben and Martin David... 

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