August Carl Helmholz (May 24, 1915 – October 29, 2003) was an American nuclear physicist known for his contributions to high energy particle physics.
He attended the Shattuck School military academy in Faribault, Minnesota, following which he went to Harvard University for his undergraduate education.
On the advice of his family neighbour and future Nobel laureate Luis Alvarez, Helmolz moved to the University of California, Berkeley for his graduate education.
In 1942, Helmholz worked with the Manhattan Project for using cyclotron magnets to separate uranium which was later used in the development of the first atomic bomb.
[4] Helmholz along with Burton Moyer made one of the first measurements of resonances in subatomic physics in the pion-nucleon interaction.