Word: physicist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Dr. August Herman Pfund, 69, longtime Johns Hopkins University physicist, authority on optics and infra-red rays (he developed an instrument which could measure the heat of a candle 18 miles away); of a heart ailment; in Baltimore...
...Physicist Dean B. Cowie, 28, was standing about two feet away from the new cyclotron at Carnegie Institution of Washington. The date was Dec. 31, 1943. Unexpectedly, the cyclotron worked on its first trial. Cowie was hit by a charge of neutrons that may have been as much as 15 million volts. In spite of three operations, he is now blind in one eye. He can barely see out of the other, but hopes it will improve after an operation...
Last week the public learned that five atomic scientists have had their eyes dimmed by cyclotron cataracts. Three of the victims had been working with the University of Illinois' cyclotron. Physicist Lloyd Smith, now 26, helped install it in 1943, and he did not notice a cloudiness in one eye until 1946. When he asked a girl physicist in the laboratory to marry him, he warned her that something was happening to his eyes (she said yes). Now working at the University of California's radiation laboratory, he hopes to have the cataracts removed soon...
...University of Chicago, worked on the Illinois cyclotron during the war; he noticed a cataract's dimming effects in his right eye two years ago. It seems to be clearing, and he hopes it will go away without an operation. The fifth victim is a nuclear physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
...Many Slide Rules. In addition, AEC was charged with failing to bring certain problems out of the physicist's slide-rule realm into the everyday trial-&-error world of engineers who might solve them and perhaps make good use of the results in other industries. For example, Committee Member Isaac Harter, director of Babcock & Wilcox Ltd., got an idea from an atomic process that helped his company refine its continuous steel casting process...