Fred, Edwin

Sidney M. Cantor William von Fischer Edward L. Haenisch Edwin J. Hart Harry S. Mosher C. M. Sliepcevich Edward E. Smissman Fred R. Whaley William A. Zisman... 

Jaynes-Cunnnnings nnodel A model used in quantum optics and atomic physics to describe the interactions between an atom with two energy levels and a quantized mode of an electromagnetic field. This model, which was put forward by the American physicists Edwin Jaynes (1922-98) and Fred Cummings in 1963, has proved to be very useful in establishing which aspects of quantum optics are purely quantum mechanical and which can be dealt with by using quantum mechanics for the two-level atom and classical electrodynamics for the electromagnetic field. 

Effect of dietary ascorbic acid on the incidence of spontaneous mammary tumors in RIII mice. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 82 (1985) 5185—5189. (Linus Pauling, Jon C. Nixon, Fred Stitt, Richard Marcuson, Wolcott B. Dunham, Roger Barth, Klaus Bensch, Zelek S. Herman, B. Edwin Blaisdell, Constance Tsao, Mariljm Prender, Valerie Andrews, Richard Willoughby, and Emile Zuckerkandl). 

Two months before Pearl Harbor, the president of the National Academy and the chairman of the National Research Council asked Edwin B. Fred to help form and act as chairman of a committee to study and assess current potentialities of BW. A group of twelve scientists met on 18 November 1941, designated the WBC Committee (War Bureau of Consultants). Liaison members of the committe included Lt. Col. Maurice E. Barker, Lt. Col. James H. Defandorf, and 1st Lt. Luman F. Ney of the Chemical Warfare Service, as well as representatives of Ordnance, the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, The Surgeon General s Office, the Department of Agriculture, and the U.S. Public Health Service. The committee report to the Secretary of War in February 1942 declared the BW was distinctly feasible, that it was a potential threat to national security, and that steps should be taken at once to formulate defensive and offensive measures. 

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