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Lauritsen, Charles C(hristian)
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| Physicist, born in Holstebro, Denmark. He went to the USA in 1917, and designed and produced radios, until R A Milliken influenced him to join the California Institute of Technology (1926–68). He helped develop what was then the most powerful X-ray tube extant for cancer therapy (1928). A pioneer in nuclear astrophysics and rocketry for most of his career, he produced components for the atomic bomb (1944). During the 1950s he was an outspoken opponent of nuclear testing. |
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