Word: biophysicist
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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...great mushroom of smoke rising into the sky . . . The skin of my bare arms seemed as if it had been held before a hot fire and was tingling ... I was wearing dark-tinted spectacles at the time ... I thought this fact might be of interest to Ophthalmologist Rose and Biophysicist Buettner...
Sightseeing during an atomic bombing is unwise; it may destroy the sight of anyone who is otherwise safe from the heat and blast. This is the warning of Ophthalmologist Heinrich W. Rose and Biophysicist Konrad Buettner, who looked into the matter at the Air Force School of Aviation Medicine...
...there" is an unfriendly place for other reasons. Even at 70,000 ft., an altitude already reached by man-carrying planes, cosmic-ray particles still have much of their tremendous original energy. The heavier ones, as yet ungentled by^ the atmosphere, says German Biophysicist Hermann J. Schaeffer, can plow with destructive force straight through a plane's fuselage and on through the human body. An hour's exposure might permanently damage bone marrow and reproductive organs...