Word: radiologists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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High Hopes. If Radiologist Harvey's estimate is right, every day for the next two to three weeks more & more cancer cells in and around the patient's larynx will have their nuclei killed by the betatron's almost irresistible rays. Patients with deep-seated malignancies in other parts of the body also started treatment this week. Soon Dr. Harvey should be able to tell whether medicine's new weapon, which now costs $85,000, shows promise. If the answer is favorable, high-powered, penetrating X rays may be used in about 10% of cancer cases...
Died. Dr. Gordon Earle Richards, 63, Canadian radiologist famed for his work in cancer diagnosis; of leukemia; in Toronto...
Comes the Revolution. It was at a Pasadena party in 1939 that Robert Oppenheimer, then 35, met Katherine Puening Harrison. A small, German-born brunette, Mrs. Harrison was the wife of a radiologist, and herself a graduate student in plant physiology at U.C.L.A. A year later, after the Harrisons were divorced, Kitty and Robert were married. Of the subsequent revolution in his habits, Oppenheimer says: "A certain stuffiness overcame...
Wolf Cukersvein, a 35-year-old, Warsaw-born doctor who left Poland because, as a Jew, he could not gain admission to a university; had fled anti-Semitism in Italy; settled in Toulouse as a radiologist: "Even there I ... could not get work because of racial prejudice...
Died. Dr. Albert Soiland, 73, radiologist and cancer fighter; of a heart attack; in Stavanger, Norway. Starting 63 years ago as a Norwegian immigrant, he made a rags-to-riches rise in medicine, founded two schools (American College of Radiology, Los Angeles Tumor Institute), dedicated his near-million-dollar life earnings to cancer research...