Bernice Weldon Sargent | |
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| Born | 24 September 1906 |
| Died | 17 December 1993 (aged 87) |
| Nationality | English |
| Alma mater | Queen's University (B.A. (Hons), 1926, M.A. 1927) University of Cambridge (Ph.D., 1932) |
| Known for | Sargent curves |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Queen's University Montreal Laboratory |
| Thesis | The Disintegration Electrons (1932) |
| Doctoral advisor | Ernest Rutherford and Charles Drummond Ellis |
Bernice Weldon Sargent, MBE, FRSC (24 September 1906 – 17 December 1993) was a Canadian physicist who worked at the Manhattan Project's Montreal Laboratory during the Second World War as head of its nuclear physics division. In his 1932 doctoral thesis, he discovered the relationship between the radioactive disintegration constants of beta particle-emitting radioisotopes and corresponding logarithms of their maximum beta particle energies. These plots are known as "Sargent curves".