Talk:Herbert E. Grier

A fact from Herbert E. Grier appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 7 January 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that National Medal of Science recipient Herbert E. Grier built the firing mechanism used in the Fat Man bomb?

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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by 97198 (talk) 04:06, 3 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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... that National Medal of Science recipient Herbert E. Grier built the firing mechanism used in the Fat Man bomb? Source: bomb medal
- ALT1:... that National Medal of Science recipient Herbert E. Grier co-invented a miniature stroboscope in 1934? Source: p. 187-88 medal
- ALT2:... that National Medal of Science recipient Herbert E. Grier co-invented a handheld flash for newspaper photographers in 1940? Source: p. 189 medal

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Charles H. Mahoney
Comment: The journal article is available via ResearchGate as well, but I'm not linking it here. If you need clippings of the other newspaper articles, let me know.

Moved to mainspace by MrLinkinPark333 (talk). Self-nominated at 00:35, 2 December 2019 (UTC).[reply]

Article is new enough (moved to mainspace on 1 December), long enough (2,487), NPOV, effective use of inline citations. Adequate QPQ provided. The hooks are interesting, short enough, my preference is ALT0 which is verified by the newspaper article and website. Good to go. Cowlibob (talk) 14:48, 18 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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