Word: 1940s
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Together with the rest of the nation, we have watched with horror as details of radiation tests conducted on unknowing subjects during the 1940s and fifties have become known. And we have been especially distressed upon learning that some of the tests--those that took place at the Walter E. Fernald State School for the retarded in Waltham--were led by Harvard faculty...
...wake of news reports about Harvard involvement in experiments using radiation on human subjects, Provost Jerry R. Green this week named a panel of Harvard officials and experts to look into the testing done between the 1940s and the 1970s...
...Countway Medical library will hire an independent archivist to catalog the files of a former Medical School faculty member who in the 1940s and '50s subjected retarded children to experiments involving radiation...
...1940s, `50s and `60s, Harvard had extraordinarily close ties to a Waltham school for the retarded where University researchers performed tests which exposed unwitting students to radioactivity, according to a 1959 report...
...1940s and early `50s, Warren considered a proposal to develop an atomic-powered airplane. To model the craft, scientists, including Warren, proposed testing humans to determine their threshold for radiation exposure...