Word: robley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frost, David Richmond of 1599-11th Street, Douglas, Ariz.; Douglis High. Griggs, Dudley Robley of 1961 Kearney Street, Denver; East Denver High Morgan, Bruce Harry of 983 South Gilpin Street, Denver; South High, Denver. Morsch, William Chris of RFD No. 4, Boise; Boise Senior High...
Physicist Robley D. Evans, another fruit-fly expert, concluded that hereditary abnormalities are unlikely if a small fraction of the population suffers moderate radiation exposure. Acting as an informal referee, Dr. Shields Warren, the A.E.C.'s top radiation expert, sided with Evans but called it "a matter of opinion...
...guinea pig was a volunteer-Fred Learned, onetime farm editor, now an employe of the American Cancer Society. Two days before the big banquet at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria he had taken a dose of radioactive iodine; now handsome, scholarly Dr. Robley D. Evans, of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, would demonstrate how the substance, a product of atomic research, could combat cancer of the thyroid...
Where had the radioactive strawboard come from? Dr. Robley D. Evans of M.I.T. offered additional clues. It was made, he said, of straw cut in Illinois on Aug. 6, just 21 days after the explosion of the first atomic bomb in New Mexico. Straw cut before the explosion proved entirely harmless. This coincidence suggested, thought Dr. Evans, that radioactive residues, carried into the upper atmosphere in New Mexico, had fallen with the rain on Illinois. The only other apparent possibility was that the Wabash River, whose water was used in the strawboard factory, carried radioactive silt...