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=Notable Colleagues=
* Dr. Ernest Lawrence (1901-1958) as he was developing the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclotron cyclotron], a type of particle accelerator, which is still used today to produce particle beams for nuclear medicinal diagnostics, and particle therapy used in cancer treatment, which won him a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1939, as per Wikipedia. * Dr. Albert Beaumont Wood (1890-1964) who was "one of the first two scientists to receive an official appointment with the Admiralty under the newly formed Board of Invention and Research" at what was later known as the Royal Navy Scientific Service, where he began pioneering research into underwater acoustics, of which came "Text Book of Sound", described as a classic work on the subject, according to [https://watermark.silverchair.com/070009_1_online.pdf ''The Naval Science of Albert Beaumont Wood, O.B.E., D.Sc.'']. Dr. Haupt was one of several contributors invited to submit an article to a memorial tribute for Dr. Wood.
=Sources=
* Ancestry.com
* "American Men of Science: Biographical Directory", ed. by Jaques Cattell. 8th ed., 1949.