Landsverk Dosimeter, Model L 50
notes: label: Description
content: Small dosimeter marked "Landsverk Dosimeter / Model L 50 / #39357." Ole G. Landsverk (1901-1984) was a physicist with a PhD from the University of Chicago who, while serving as a member of the health physics team at the Metallurgical Laboratory during the Manhattan Project, helped develop the quartz fiber dosimeter, an important tool for detecting radiation exposure. He established the Landsverk Electrometer Company in Glendale, California, in 1947. In 1959, this firm was described as “the world’s leading manufacturer of radiation measuring instruments.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Ole G. Landsverk and Ernest O. Wollan, “Electrical Measuring Apparatus,” U.S. Patent 2,465,886 (March 29, 1949), assigned to the United States of America, as represented by the United States Atomic Energy Commission.
label: Description
content: Ad for Landsverk Fallout Radiation Measurement Set in New York Times (Nov. 14, 1961), p. 20.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Glendale
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Donation of George E. Burch, Jr., M.D., Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0186.034
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0186.034
label: accession number
content: 1980.0186
label: model number
content: L 50
label: serial number
content: 39357
label: collector/donor number
content: 052
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dosimeter
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9.8 cm x 1.1 cm x 1.1 cm; 3 27/32 in x 7/16 in x 7/16 in