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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ramshackle Chicago laboratory, an earnest, imaginative young scientist named Emil Grubbe gazed at the greenish glow coming from a Crookes vacuum tube he had made. He put his left hand on the tube. It was warm. Grubbe (pronounced Grew-bay) was satisfied that the tube (useful only in scientific experiments) was working right. By summer's end, a severe skin irritation appeared on Grubbe's left hand. Dermatologists had no idea what it was. Then Grubbe heard that, from similar tubes, Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen had generated a new and mysterious form of radiation-X rays. "I knew then...
Last week Dr. Grubbe, 84, lay in Chicago's Swedish Covenant Hospital, apparently recovering from surgery for cancer resulting from his work with Crookes tubes. It had been his 92nd operation. The first X-ray martyr-a victim of the rays' effects before their nature was recognized-has proved to be one of the toughest...
Lead Shields. Chicago-born Emil Herman Grubbe got through Valparaiso (Ind.) University at 20, mined platinum in Idaho, and began using the metal in his vacuum tubes. He was teaching chemistry and studying medicine at Chicago's Hahnemann Medical College (a homeopathic school, now defunct). There, three weeks after word of Roentgen's work got out. Grubbe displayed his burned left hand at a faculty meeting. A doctor suggested that anything capable of causing such a reaction in healthy tissue might be used in treating diseased tissue. Another doctor promptly referred a woman with breast cancer to Grubbe...
...Hodges, 35, who can still field like a vacuum cleaner and at .293 put the ball game away with his bat. Last week in the first game against the Giants, he slammed a two-run homer; in the second, he slapped a game-winning double. Later, against the Chicago Cubs, Hodges daringly advanced from first to second on a long fly to center, but badly wrenched his right ankle on the slide and was carried off the field...
...Patient and precise, slight (5 ft. 8 in., 150 Ibs.) Bernard ("Tut") Bartzen, 31, from Dallas, retrieved shot after shot at Chicago's River Forest Tennis Club, finally put away San Jose State's Whitney Reed, 26, by the score of 6-0, 8-6, 7-5, to keep his U.S. clay-court championship, and to prove again that he is without peer on clay, where the balls bounce high and true, although he may be an also-ran on grass, where the shots skid low and hard...