New York Based Former Manhattan Project Scientist Dies

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

The following was in the Sunday, February 2, 1997 San Jose Mercury
News:

>SILSBEE, Henry Briggs, 74,
>
>a professor emeritus of physics at the State University of New York
>at Stony Brook, whose research centered on molecular beams and
>low-temperature physics; January 15 of complications from pneumonia
>at Cayuga Medical Center in Ithaca, New York, USA.  Mr. Silsbee
>taught at Stony Brook from 1964 until 1995.  A Harvard graduate, he
>worked as a junior scientist on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos
>in 1944.  Returning to Harvard, he received a master's degree in 1947
>and a doctorate in physics in 1951, after which he worked at the
>University of California-Berkeley and the University of Washington.


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