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Martin S. Maier

MAR 01, 1959
Physics Today

Martin S. Maier, head of the Physics Section of Raybestos‐Manhattan, Inc.'s US Asbestos Division in Manheim, Pa., died on December 23rd at the age of forty‐eight. Born in Eagleport, Ohio, Dr. Maier received his AB from Muskingum College, his MS from Purdue University, and his PhD in physics (1940) from the Ohio State University. He was professor of physics at Sterling College from 1933 to 1939; research physicist at Battelle Memorial Institute from 1940 to 1944; and a senior physicist on the proximity fuse project at Eastman Kodak Co. from 1944 to 1949, at which time he was named to head the Physics Section at the Manheim plant.

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