J. Lawrence Cassingham

Cassingham worked as a newspaperman, a movie extra in Hollywood, and then as a meteorologist in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II. After the war he was an entrepreneur, inventing the first practical portable Geiger counter in the 1940s, and later the nucliometer -- to capitalize on the "uranium boom". Since he was one of the few nuclear materials experts in the private sector, and lived near Hollywood, he was often recruited as a technical adviser for 1950s "atomic" movies and adventure TV shows. After retiring in the late 1960s, Cassingham moved to northern California, but was lured into a second career in the Silicon Valley, consulting at chip fabrication plants to reduce the number of circuits damaged by static electricity -- a major problem in the 1970s and 80s. All his life, Cassingham loved science, especially astronomy, so he really liked it when his son got a job at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and could get him current "inside" information. Summary: writer, interest in science, entrepreneur, high tech electronics -- the perfect blood line for the creator of This is True. My dad, J.L. "Larry" Cassingham, died in Northern California on December 23, the day after his 89th birthday. From This is True for 23 December 2007 Suggestions for further reading: The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes Amazon Price: $14.28 Customer Review: definitive. exhaustive. gripping. without a doubt one of the one hundred nonfiction books of the 20th century, and i don't think in this case that is empty hyperbole.   Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs Against Japan by J. Samuel Walker Amazon Price: $14.45 Customer Review: Samuel L. Walker has written a half-way decent introduction to the subject at hand, but it is not as good as many of the other reviewers think. Walker presents strong evidence that the use of the atomic bomb was necessary if the war was ...   Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes (PMC) (Puffin Modern Classics) by Eleanor Coerr Amazon Price: $5.99 Customer Review: "If a sick person folds one thousand paper cranes, the gods will grant her wish and make her healthy again." Sadako was two years old when the atom bomb was dropped on her home town of Hiroshima. Ten years later she developed leukemia as a result o...   The Green Glass Sea by Ellen Klages Amazon Price: $7.99 Customer Review: OVERALL, I REALLY ENJOYED THIS BOOK. MS. KLAGES MADE ME FEEL AS IF I WERE RIGHT THERE ON "THE HILL" AS I FOLLOWED THE YOUNG LIVES OF DEWEY AND SUZE. THIS IS A MUST READ FOR YOUNG ADOLESCENTS AND IN PARTICULAR, IT MAY ENGAGE THE RELUCTANT READER.   A World Destroyed: Hiroshima and Its Legacies by Martin Sherwin Amazon Price: $22.84 Customer Review: The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki forever changed the world landscape. The Nuclear Age came to be and a new god arose out of the ashes. The atomic bomb and nuclearism (the worshipful embrace of atomic weapons) came to rule the world in ...   Newsfeed display by CaRP

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