John J. Livingood

John J. Livingood
John J. Livingood
	Livingood in 1938
Born	John Jacob Livingood; March 7, 1903; Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.
Died	July 21, 1986 (aged 83); Hinsdale, Illinois, U.S.
Alma mater	Princeton University (AB, MA, PhD)
Spouse	Carolyn Zipf (m. 1934)
Children	2
	Scientific career
Fields	Nuclear physics
Institutions	Princeton University; University of California, Berkeley; Harvard University; Radio Research Laboratory; Collins Radio Company;
Thesis	The 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.

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