Like a number of scientists and engineers that died from exposure while
making the two WWII A bombs. So little was known in the new science of nuclear
that even the experts were careless. Some mistakes made and some were to save others.

Martin Eastburn
@ home at Lions' Lair with our computer lionslair at consolidated dot net
NRA LOH & Endowment Member
NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder



Fenrir Enterprises wrote:
On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 22:38:18 -0600, "Martin H. Eastburn"
wrote:


In the late 1800 and early 1900's a lot of really good Physicists and Chemists
died due to carelessness or lack of knowledge at the time.

The Leyden jar killed more people than it should - and created a depression of research.
The great Chemists - discovering radiation - Curie - died from their
ignorance of radiation.

Dangers exist. Science and Engineering isn't an office job.

Martin



It still happens these days. Karen Wetterhahn died from dimethyl
mercury poisoning (this came up recently in the group, actually) due
to the researchers at Dartmouth not performing tests to find out
whether their gloves were any use at all. A rather sad death since it
wasn't due to a bad lab accident or failure to follow proper
procedure. Proper procedure was simply inadequate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Wetterhahn

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