ATOM SCIENTIST ELECTROCUTED IN LABORATORY
LONDON, Jan, 20. Mr. Geoffrey Fertel, aged 32, atom scientist ’'and a research fellow at Birmingham University’s Nuffield physics laboratory, was electrocuted last night while working on a cyclotron, the atom splitting machine. Professor M. Oliphant, director of the laboratory, stated that Mr. Fertel was electrocuted when he touched a high voltage cable carrying current, for the cyclotron. Mr. Fertel was killed instantly.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22851, 22 January 1949, Page 5
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