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Ike names Libby to fill Smyth vacancy on AEC
President Eisenhower reluctantly accepted Dr Henry D Smyth’s resignation from the Atomic Energy Commission and named Willard Frank Libby a University of Chicago chemist to succeed him effective Sept 30 Libby will chair the board of scientific and engineering research at Princeton Smyth who testified on tensions within the commission praised peacetime uses of atomic energy and the hydrogen bomb push while noting private industry must play a larger role in peaceful applications Libby’s appointment awaits Senate confirmation after Congress reconvenes in January
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