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Louis Nicot Ridenour, Jr. 1911–1959

SEP 01, 1959
F. W. Loomis

On the morning of May 21, 1959, Louis Ridenour was found dead of a cerebral hemorrhage in his hotel room in Washington, D.C. As so often in the past, he had come to Washington as a Scientific Adviser for the Air Force. He had made notes for a talk he was to give that day at a conference in the Pentagon.

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F. W. Loomis, MIT Radiation Laboratory.

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