Picker, Professor

Each of the victims was photographed daily three of them died. Later in the same year at Natzweiler, a second Strasburg scientist, Professor Picker, carried out tests on a further ten habitual criminals , exposing them in gas chambers for periods of three minutes at a time to ever-increasing concentrations of phosgene.19... 

I wish to thank the Royal Society for support in the form of a Pickering Research Fellowship and also my colleagues, particularly Professor J. Lewis and Dr. B. F. G. Johnson, for many helpful discussions. 

Bill recognized immediately the importance of the invention of the scintillation camera, and persuaded Professor Charles Doan, head of the Department of Internal Medicine at Ohio State, to place an order for the first commercial version. This camera was to be built by a new company. Nuclear Chicago, under the leadership of John Kuranz, President. The company was founded in 1947 by John Kuranz and others from the nuclear reactor laboratory of Em-ico Fermi at the University of Chicago. By the early 1970s, Ohio-Nudear of Solon, Ohio, as well as Picker Medical and General Electric, were also providing gamma cameras to hospitals. 

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