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John George Trump
Pages 332-337

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... in electrical engineering from MIT, where he became a research associate in that same year, an assistant professor in 1936, and a professor in 1952. Trump formally retired in 1973, although he continued his active research program as professor emeritus until 1980.
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... In 193S, with continued funding from the Hyams Fund, the team began the design of a new, compact I.25-Mev generator that would be insulated with compressed gas. This particular machine was installed in the George Robert White Hospital of the Massachusetts General Hospital, where it remainec!
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... He formed the High Voltage Engineering Company to put electrostatic high voltage machines to work. Van cle Graaff generators were soon in use all over the worIcl with a wicle range of applications, inclucting those in physics research, the sterilization of surgical instruments, the crosslinking of polymers, and the radiography of welds and castings.
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... favorably with chlorine treatment on an economic basis, had the additional acivantage of destroying many viruses, and appeared to dissociate PCBs and similar compounds into less noxious forms. With National Science Founclation support, Trump and his associates built a pilot plant at the Deer Island Sewage Plant in Boston Harbor.
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... His mixture of personal technical work and quiet leadership produced many important discoveries. John Trump will be missed by his woric~wicle circle of colleagues ant!
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