Physicist Dies

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

The following appeared in the February 14, 1997 edition of the San
Jose Mercury News:

>MARGENAU, Henry, 96,
>
>a professor emeritus of physics and natural history at Yale University
>and an expert in spectroscopy, microwave theory, nuclear energy and
>the philosophy of science; Saturday in Hamden, Conn.  During the
>1950s, his theories of spectral analysis, the study of the properties
>of light as it passes through a prism, were used to analyze the
>fireballs created in the tests of hydrogen bombs.


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Michael P. Grissom
Assistant Director (ES&H) 
SLAC
mikeg@slac.stanford.edu
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