John J. Livingood

John J. Livingood
Livingood in 1938
Born
John Jacob Livingood

(1903-03-07)March 7, 1903
DiedJuly 21, 1986(1986-07-21) (aged 83)
Alma materPrinceton University (AB, MA, PhD)
Spouse
Carolyn Zipf
(m. 1934)
Children2
Scientific career
FieldsNuclear physics
Institutions
ThesisThe Arc Spectrum of Platinum (1929)

John Jacob Livingood (March 7, 1903 – July 21, 1986) was an American nuclear physicist specialising in the design of particle accelerators. With Glenn Seaborg he discovered and characterized a number of new radioisotopes useful for nuclear medicine, including cobalt-60, iodine-131 and iron-59.