History: More Deaths Reported

["Michael P. Grissom" <mikeg@SLAC.Stanford.EDU>]

A flurry of obituaries for persons associated with the
nuclear industry or the Manhattan Project have been seen
lately.  Some have involved persons who worked for a short
time with the 1,000s of individuals on the Manhattan Project
but who afterwards pursued other careers (at least one
recent obit was for an individual who had become a 
professional opera singer after the war).  Some of the
other notables are shown below:

-----SJMN July 12, 1996 (No Bylines)

>Bill Lee, 67
>
>  ...who helped Duke Power Co. grow into one of the nation's
>  largest utilities; Wednesday in New York.  Mr. Lee was Duke
>  Power's chairman from 1982 until he retired in 1994.  His
>  grandfather was the company's first chief engineer.  Mr. Lee
>  helped form the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations [INPO]
>  in 1979 following the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island.
>  He helped create the organization's international counterpart,
>  the World Association of Nuclear Operators, in 1987, after the
>  1986 accident at Chernobyl.  Both are concerned with global
>  nuclear safety and performance issues.
>  ....
>Edward P. Ney, 75
>
>  ...a University of Minnesota physics and astronomy professor
>  who worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II; Tuesday
>  in Minneapolis after fighting congestive heart disease.  Mr. Ney
>  got his undergraduate degree in physics from Minnesota and
>  became a faculty member in 1947.

-----SJMN July 17, 1996 (No Byline)

>Kenneth Tompkins Bainbridge, 91
>
>  ...director of the first atomic bomb test at Alamogordo, N.M.,
>  who had earlier supplied the accurate measurements of atomic
>  weight that verified Albert Einstein's prediction of the
>  equivalence of energy and mass; Sunday at his home in Lexington,
>  Mass.  During a postgraduate fellowship at Bartol Laboratory in
>  Swarthmore, Pa., Mr. Bainbridge built a mass spectrometer to
>  search for the then-undiscovered Element 87, called eka-cesium.
>  But the instrument turned out to be so accurate that it could
>  not only measure the weights of atoms and its [sic] nuclei but
>  also distinguish the weight differentials of various isotopes
>  of an element.

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Michael P. Grissom
Special Assistant, SLAC
mikeg@slac.stanford.edu
Phone:  (415) 926-2346
Fax:    (415) 926-3030