William Rudolph Kanne

Education

1937: Ph.D., Physics, Johns Hopkins University - The Disintegration of Aluminum by Polonium α-Particles

Positions

1940 - 1944: Assistant Professor of Physics, Illinois Institute of Technology

Biography

William Kanne joined IIT as an Assistant Professor in 1940. He worked on Chicago Pile One with Enrico Fermi and Leo Szilard, inventing the Kanne Chamber.[1] Kanne left IIT in 1944 for the Hanford Works [1-4] and later the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory.[5] He has a number of patents in the area of nuclear power.[1-4]

Publications at IIT

"A Search for Resonance Scattered Protons from ¹¹B and ¹⁹F", W.R. Kanne, R.F. Taschek, and G.L. Ragan, Physical Review 58, 693 (1940).
"The Scattering of Protons by Protons from 200 to 300 keV", G.L. Ragan, W.R. Kanne, and R.F. Taschek, Physical Review 60, 628 (1941).
"Localization of the Discharge in G-M Counters", M.H. Wilkening and W.R. Kanne, Physical Review 62, 534 (1942).
"Detecting Device", W.R. Kanne, U.S. Patent 2,513,805 (1943).

References

[1] "Monitoring of Gas for Radioactivity", W.R. Kanne, U.S. Patent 2,599,922 (1952).

[2] "Monitoring Gas for Radioactive Xenon", W.R. Kanne, U.S. Patent 2,625,657 (1953).

[3] "Nuclear Reactor Slug Provided With Thermocouple", W.R. Kanne, U.S. Patent 2,856,341 (1958).

[4] "Thermal Couple for Measuring Temperature in a Reactor", W.R. Kanne, U.S. Patent 2,914,594 (1959).

[5] Book Review of "Introduction to Nuclear Engineering", W.R. Kanne, Journal of the American Chemical Society 77, 1394 (1955).