Gordon L. Locher

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Gordon Lee Locher ( September 28, 1904 , † September 8, 1964 ) was an American physicist who worked in the field of cosmic rays and the influence of radiation on biological systems.

Life

Gordon L. Locher graduated from Rice University in Houston , Texas , in the early 1930s , where he studied cosmic rays and was involved in the development of particle detectors . He then continued this work as a National Research Fellow at the Bartol Research Foundation of the Franklin Institute . This research facility was located on the campus of Swarthmore College , Pennsylvania . In 1932 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . In the mid-1930s he began investigating the influence of radiation on biological systems. 1936 he developed in a work the idea of boron neutron capture therapy (English Boron Neutron Capture Therapy , BNCT) for cancer treatment. He was one of the first physicists to study the harmful effects of neutron radiation on living things.

After a dispute about the authorship of scientific results, he left the Bartol Research Foundation in the late 1930s. In 1949 he founded the Western Radiation Laboratory in Los Angeles. He died on September 8, 1964 and was buried in a Los Angeles County cemetery.

literature

  • Robert H. Koch: Observational Astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania 1751-2007 . 2008, p. 92-93 ( online [accessed August 15, 2017]).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ APS Fellow Archive. American Physical Society, accessed August 17, 2017 .
  2. ^ Gordon L. Locher: Biological effects and therapeutic possibilities of neutrons . In: American Journal of Roentgenology, Radium Therapy . tape 36 , 1936, pp. 1-13 .
  3. ↑ Mary A. Nagai, Gordon L. Locher: The production of mutations in drosophila with neutron radiation . In: Journal of the Franklin Institute . tape 228 , no. 1 , 1939, p. 101-103 , doi : 10.1016 / S0016-0032 (39) 90253-X .
  4. ^ Myron J. Rand: Industrial Research Laboratories of the United States . National Academy of Sciences, 1950 ( full text in Google Book Search).
  5. ^ Gordon L. Locher in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved August 12, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Locher, Gordon L.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Locher, Gordon Lee
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1904
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 1964