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Ross Gunn
Ross Gunn
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Electricity Division, superintendent of the Aircraft Electrical Division, en c! technical director of the Army-Navy Precipitation Static Project, as well as technical Divisor to the naval aciministration.
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Robert Burns Gunn is currently professor of physiology and chairman of the Department of Physiology at the Emory University School of Medicine. While in high school in Oberlin, Ohio, Gunn became interested!
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pioneer work in cleveloping a radio range aircraft navigation system. In the course of this work he macle a number of the first cross-country instrument flights.
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to rallies, the new electronics, en c! instrumentation employing vacuum tubes.
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many administrative cluties in aciclition to his role as technical aciviser to the naval administration. One of them was to act as technical director of the Army-Navy Precipitation Static Project.
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submarine. The report also stated, "A liquid thermal diffusion plant costing one to two million clolIars conic!
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to Ross Gunn on September 4, ~ 945. The citation incluclecI: For exceptionally distinguished service to the United States Navy in the field of scientific research and in particular by reason of his outstanding contribution to the development of the atomic bomb .
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A core objective was to investigate the processes responsible for precipitation under various physical conditions. His first task as director of the Weather Bureau's Physical Research Division was to organize a program to study the practicality of producing rain by clouc!
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technical director of the Army-Navy Precipitation Static Project, Gunn participates! actively in choosing instrumentation for it en c!
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meters capable of operating continuously in very heavy rain, whether on the grounc! or on aircraft.
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in thunderstorms implies a gross separation of free electrical charges with a consequent expenditure of large amounts of energy. · An important inclex of thunderstorm activity is the electric field!
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twentythree articles, most of which clealt with violent weather phenomena. An exception was a biographical sketch portraying some of Gunn's character traits.
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He hoped the facts would speak for themselves and in such matters he preferred to remain silent. During his life, in whatever role he fount!
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71:181-86. 1948 Electric field intensity inside of natural clouds.
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Thunderstorm electrification and raindrop collisions and disjection in an electric field. Science 150:888-89.
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