Word: electronic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...revolutionary electron gun, developed by the University of Chicago's Dr. Robert J. Moon, is being perfected for X-raying hard-to-get-at organs such as the stomach and lower intestines. Using a pinpoint X-ray beam and a scanning system, it throws a brilliant, enlarged image on a TV screen, subjects both patient and radiologist to much smaller and safer doses of X rays than older methods...
Reinhold Rudenberg, Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering, is also retiring. Rudenberg who has been at Harvard since 1939 is the inventor of the electron microscope. He is responsible for many of the basic theories relative to the operation of electric machinery and power systems...
Rudenberg is the inventor of the electron microscope and has been awarded the Swedish gold Cedergren Medal and Scroll for "highly meritorious work in the field of electrical engineering...
...Williams pointed out that study of mitochondria has provided the bio-chemist with his first tangible evidence of the organization of enzyme systems within the cytoplasm of living cells. This work is facilitated by the use of the electron microscope...
...these chores are performed by the transistor with startling economy of materials and power. There is no glass envelope, as in an electron tube, and no complicated insides. The current price of germanium is more than $100 a lb., but so little is used that its cost is negligible...