Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Robert Jemison Van de Graaff, born December 20, 1901 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, died January 16, 1967 in Boston, Massachusetts. American physicist and instrument maker, professor of physics at Princeton University. Designer of the Van de Graaff generator. External links Biography in German from the Tech University in Munich, http://www1.physik.tu-muenchen.de/~kressier/Bios/Vandegraaff.html Dr. Van de Graaff's large generator from MIT http://www.mos.org/sln/toe/ VDG for hobbyists and science fair http://amasci.com/emotor/vdg.html This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.