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Mar. 21,1938.
Dr. S.C. Lind,
University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, Minn.
Dear Dr. Lind:
You will probably be interested and somewhat shocked to
learn that our good fréend, Barker, is now in Memorial Hospital,
New York City, in rather a critical condition. As a matter of
fact, he does not realize the seriousness of his ailment and would
be terribly upset if he knew I were writing you this, but the fact
remains that in all prohability he will never be able to resume
his duties with the Corporation. He really started to ail about
last August or September, but paid very little attention to the
pain in his right chest until the first of the year. He has gone
through all the stages of diagnosis, and of course sofur as he is
concerned, he has been told that they have been unable to find what
the matter is. Confidentially, the condition is ono of cancer of
the right lung, with a brain involvement.
We are all broken up here and of course will miss Howard a
great deal since he has been an important part of our organization
for a great many years. It will not be a simple matter to replace
him, but that is a question which now we face, and I wonder if you
have in mind any young men who might be qualified to serve us in
the capacity of both physicist and chemist.
The chief duties would be to put radium in solution and make
up luminous compounds. There would be a limited amount of determination
of radio-activity, and there would be considerable work on making
brightness measurements on luminous material. He would also do con-
siderable experimental work on adhesives and some on zinc sulphide,
and give some assistance to our general production manager in the ap-
plication department.
It is not so easy to find a chemist femiliar with radium, but
probably you have in mind some bright young fellow who has had at
least some experience. Most of the work, anyway, is such that he
would have to break in on it here. As you know, we refine or recover
no radium whatever here, but only make the solutions for use in the
luminous material.
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