Ernest T.S. Walton, Ireland's only Nobel Prize winner in science, has retired at age 83 from his position on the Board of the School of Cosmic Physics at Dublin's Institute of Advanced Studies. Walton was the originator, along with J.D. Crockroft, of the artificial disintegration of atomic nuclei by accelerated beams of atomic particles. Walton was working under Sir Ernest Rutherford at Cambridge at the time he won the Nobel. He has been with the Institute of Advanced Studies in Dublin since it was founded 40 years ago.
Barbara F. Atkinson has been named professor and chairman of the department of pathology at the Medical College of Pennsylvania. Atkinson is an associate scientist at the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology. She previously served as an associate professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and director of cytopathology and medical director of the ...
