Bernice Weldon Sargent

Bernice Weldon Sargent
Born	(1906-09-24)24 September 1906 Williamsburg, Ontario
Died	17 December 1993(1993-12-17) (aged 87) Kingston, Ontario
Nationality	English
Alma mater	Queen's University (B.A. (Hons), 1926, M.A. 1927) University of Cambridge (Ph.D., 1932)
Known for	Sargent curves
Scientific career
Institutions	Queen's University Montreal Laboratory
Thesis	The Disintegration Electrons  (1932)
Doctoral advisor	Ernest Rutherford and Charles Drummond Ellis

Bernice Weldon Sargent, MBE, FRSC (24 September 1906 – 17 December 1993) was a Canadian physicist who worked at the Manhattan Project's Montreal Laboratory during the Second World War as head of its nuclear physics division. In his 1932 doctoral thesis, he discovered the relationship between the radioactive disintegration constants of beta particle-emitting radioisotopes and corresponding logarithms of their maximum beta particle energies. These plots are known as "Sargent curves".