Radiation Counting Shield
date: label: Date made
content: ca. 1960
name: label: maker
content: Radiation Counter Laboratories
notes: label: Description
content: Ernest Henry Wakefield (1915-2005), an electrical engineer who had worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II, established the Radiation Counter Laboratories in Chicago in 1946. The firm moved to Skokie, Ill., in 1951. By 1963 it had become a subsidiary of Allied Research Associates, Inc.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Modern Physics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Department of Chemistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1994.0125.14
label: accession number
content: 1994.0125
label: catalog number
content: 1994.0125.14
objectType: label: Object Name
content: radiation counting shield
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 3/4 in x 9 1/4 in; 40.005 cm x 23.495 cm