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Information trouvée : Décès 2004 : Ralph E. Lapp Manhattan Project scientist and author of 'The Voyage
of the Lucky Dragon'Born in Buffalo, New York, in 1917, He began his career in high-energy
physics research under the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Arthur H. Compton, before
working on the Manhattan Project.After the war, Dr. Lapp served as science adviser
and executive director of research and development at the War Department. In 1949,
he joined the Office of Naval Research as head of the nuclear physics branch. He also
worked for the Atomic Energy Commission as assistant director of Argonne National
Laboratory, the nuclear research laboratory operated for the government by the University
of Chicago. In 1950, he left government to form his own consulting firm, Nuclear Science
Services, in Washington.In addition to his book about the Japanese fishermen, Dr.
Lapp co-wrote "Nuclear Radiation Physics" (1948), which has gone through several editions
and is still used as a reference, and "My Life With Radiation: Hiroshima Plus Fifty
Years" (1995). He wrote 22 books in all on nuclear safety and radiation, for professionals
and the general public, as well as numerous articles.Dr. Lapp was a co-founder and
senior staff member of the Washington firm Quadri-Science Inc., a nuclear energy consulting
firm that operated from 1964 to 1978. In 1983, he founded a similar company, Lapp
Inc. It stayed in business until 2002.
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