Word: simjian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dean Milton Charles Winternitz of Yale's Medical School was as happy as any preceptor could be last week. One of his proteges, Luther George Simjian, had just announced perfection of a device which: 1) produces colored x-ray images of internal organs, 2) visualizes highly transparent organs, 3) utilizes harmless, weak x-ray beams. 4) allows the colored images to "be sent by wire to any place the examining doctor...
...Inventor Simjian conceived the apparatus while he was director of the Medical School's photographic laboratories. Leaving Yale, the well-to-do young Armenian built a model of the x-ray observation ap paratus and as soon as he saw that it worked, disassembled it. Last week he regretted his act. when Surgeon William Rose of Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center asked permission to use the Simjian device first. Mr. Simjian, about to sail for England, promised to build another in autumn...
...Tests indicate that the diagnostician can be more certain than ever before of recognizing a cancer or benign tumor in its early stage," said Inventor Simjian. "Another very important point is that for the first time it becomes possible to illuminate blood vessels." Among other photographic devices invented by Mr. Simjian are a fogged silver screen for projecting microscopic photographs, a self-focusing camera, an automatic developing tank, a system of mirrors and a camera with which a subject can photograph any desired aspect of his face, and a set of mirrors for dress and hat shops inside which...
...PhotoReflex films go to New Haven because there is where the inventor works, amiable young Luther George Simjian, Armenian-born director of Yale Medical School's photographic laboratories. An other of his devices is a fogged silver screen for the perfect projection of microscopic slides. Newly formed to exploit his latest invention is PhotoRerlex Co. of America, affiliated with Sperry Gyroscope Co. and North American Aviation Corp. Soon he hopes to enjoy royalties from a national chain of PhotoReflex booths...
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