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...feet were in bobbysocks and sneakers. They came from high schools all over the U.S. For five days in Washington, D.C., last week, they devoured lectures on molecules and atoms and cyclotrons. And every night, over bedtime milkshakes at the Statler Hotel, they held long bull sessions on genetics, Geiger counters, and oscilloscopes...
Please permit me to correct a confusion of terms which appeared in TIME, Nov. 3, under the title "A Geiger Counter for Everybody. "The gadget" which is there described is not a Geiger counter but an ionization chamber type of meter. The distinction is ... vital for the proper protection ... of persons who are exposed to radiation...
...well known that all radioactive radiations, including gamma rays and X rays, are in the form of separate particles. The Geiger counter counts them one for one, as one would count the pages in a book. However, some types of particles may easily be ten or more times as damaging to the tissues of the body as others...
...thing a radioactive world needs is a good "atom-sized" Geiger counter. Last week the University of Chicago proudly displayed a handy, hip-pocket model. The new gadget is so easy to read that anybody can tell when his surroundings become dangerously radioactive...
Unlike the standard Geiger counter, which may record radiation by a series of clicks, the pocket model does its recording on a lighted scale. The user just presses a button; if the fiber moves across the scale, he can be pretty sure that he is being bombarded by unhealthy radiation...