Word: calif
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Roanne Shamsky Solana Beach, Calif...
Harry Sharma Long Beach, Calif...
Christopher Benevent Martinez, Calif...
Charles H. Lowry Garden Grove, Calif...
...Kaplan, 65, Stanford University radiologist and co-inventor of the first medical linear accelerator in the Western hemisphere, which became the cornerstone of modern radiation therapy and helped transform once fatal Hodgkin's disease, for example, into a relatively curable ailment; of lung cancer; in Palo Alto, Calif. In 1955 the Chicago-born Kaplan collaborated with Edward Ginzton in developing a 6-million-volt accelerator at the Stanford Medical Center, then in San Francisco. The device smashed atoms to produce high-dosage radiation that could be directed at various forms of cancer with much greater accuracy and effectiveness than...