History: Thomas H. Johnson

[Mike Grissom <mikeg@SLAC.Stanford.EDU>]

Radsafers,

The following obituary appeared in the March 21, 1998
issue of the San Jose Mercury News:

>JOHNSON, Thomas H., 98,
>
>a cosmic ray physicist whose findings were part of the
>foundation for the field of high energy physics; Feb. 25
>at his home in Denmark, Maine.  Mr. Johnson worked at
>Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island before
>becoming vice president for research at Raytheon Corp.
>in Lexington, Mass., in the 1950s.  Working at Bartol
>Research Foundation in Swarthmore, Pa., in the 1930s,
>Mr. Johnson set out to count cosmic rays at different
>elevations and help explain the radiation that constantly
>bombards Earth.