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Word: inductor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Lyman James Briggs, 88, director of the National Bureau of Standards from 1933 until his retirement in 1945, a physicist of scope and versatility who devised the earth inductor compass, a navigation boon that Charles Lindbergh used on his transatlantic flight, developed the centrifuge method for classifying soils by moisture content, and helped lead the U.S. into nuclear physics as chairman of the Uranium Committee (forerunner of the Manhattan Project); of a heart attack; in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 5, 1963 | 4/5/1963 | See Source »

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