Word: berkeley
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Eugene Gardner, a brilliant young nuclear physicist, was working in 1942 at Berkeley, Calif, with the Manhattan (atom bomb) Project. His secret work required him to drill a hole in an electrode made of beryllium oxide. Out of the hole a fine dust rose, and 29-year-old Gardner inhaled it. He did not know, nor did anyone know at the time, that the beryllium in the dust was a slow, implacable poison...
...through the critical years of the bomb project, Gardner worked at Oak Ridge and Los Alamos. As one colleague put it, his brain was "one of the nation's great natural resources." When he returned to Berkeley in 1945, his disease was well advanced. He complained of fatigue and shortness of breath. X-ray examination of his chest showed fibrosis in both lungs. But no one could tell the cause; no treatment did any good. He had hardly enough strength for laboratory desk work...
...committee is first supposed to make recommendations to Griswold as to whether Yale should line up with supporters of universal military service or universal military training. It will consist of ten seniors, one freshman, and Thomas C. Mendenhall II, master of Berkeley College...
...Doermann, New York City; Werner Drehmel '52, Brookline William R. Engstrom '52, Newtonville; Bernard J. Florin '53, Roubaix, France; Dana H. Getchell '53, Belmont; Benjamin S. Goldstein '53, Cambridge; Robert S. O. Harding '52, Rumson, J. J.; Donald C. Harshman '53, Englewood, N. J.; Richard W. Hulbert '51, Somerville; Berkeley D. Johnson, Jr. '53, Scarsdale, N. Y.; James P. Johnson '51, Clarks Summit, Pa.; Laurence B. Leonard, Jr. '52, Swampscott; Richmind P. Miller, Jr. '49, Philadelphia; Howitt Pantaleoni '52, New York City; Charles W. Ufford, Jr. '53 Haverford, Pa.; Chalres Weiss '51, Philadelphia; Albert E. Wolf '51, Jenkintown...
Eliot 27, Berkeley...