Word: tuve
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DIED. Merle Tuve, 80, physicist whose discoveries opened the way to radar and nuclear energy; in Bethesda, Md. More than 50 years ago, Tuve noted that short-pulse radio waves reflected off the ionosphere, which provided the theoretical underpinning for radar. In 1933 he confirmed the existence of the neutron and was also able to measure the bonding forces in atomic nuclei. During World War II, he organized development of the proximity fuse for antiaircraft shells, enabling defenders to increase greatly their accuracy in combating German V-1 buzz bombs and Japanese kamikaze plane attacks...