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Dr. Marcel Schein, U. of C. Cosmic Ray Expert, DiesDr. Marcel Schein. 57, one-lime teacher in Russia who became noted as a physicist and researcher In cosmic raya after he came to the Univeraity of Chicago, died of a heart all-mont Saturday in Billings hospital He was barn in Trstena, Czechoslovakia, June 9, 1902, and was professor of experimental physics at the University of Odessa before coming to Chirago In 193U.Aids A-Bomb Project A few years later he was called upon to be a consultant to the Manhattan district project of World War II thru which the United States developed, under the grandstand at Stagg field on the U. of C. Midway campus.atomic pile—the forerunner of the atom bomb.However, for the last 20 years, Dr. Schcln's speciality was the study of the behavour df cosmic rays, the high energy nuclear particles produced In space high above the earth’s atmosphere.Strikes While Skating Last month. Dr. Schein headed Operation Skyhook 60, which he also described as a safari into space. The Chicago scientist and his colleagues went to the Carribcan area to study the high flying cosmic rays with the world's largest balloon a launched from a United States navy task force.The balloons, carrying stacks of radio-sensitive film, were tent more than 115,000 feet into the atmosphere where the film was bombarded by the cosmic raysThe film was recovered arylu. o. k. « i u w ay nmpui, Dr S^Jn and faj, colleagues. mankinds first controled[including representativesfrom more than 20 universities, were studying it to evaluate the rays. He was slnken a week ago at a campus ice skating rink. Colleagues said he had suffcrrd two other attacks in the last decade.Slnco 1946, Dr. Schein, who lived at 5650 Dorchester av., had been a professor in the department of physics and in the Enrico Fermi Institute for Nuclear Studies at the university.He leaves his widow. Hilda, and a con, Edgar H , Cambridge, Mass.Services will be held at 1 p. m. Monday in ihc chapel at 7651 Jelfery blvd.
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