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Ann Arbor News, June 8, 1955
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SCIENTIST-ADMINISTRATOR: Prof. Henry J. Gomberg, assistant director of the Phoenix Project and winner of the U-M Henry Russel Award in 1952, stands behind a model of cobalt 60 rods similar to the ones the University will get from Canada next month. Cobalt 60 is a high energy radiation source.

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Ann Arbor News, June 8, 1955
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DEDICATED TO U-M WORLD WAR II DEAD: This plaque, located in the vestibule of the University's new atomic energy research building, the Phoenix Memorial Laboratory, displays the names of 582 U-M students, alumni and staff who died during World War II. The Phoenix Project is dedicated to them.

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Ann Arbor News, June 8, 1955
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"COUNTING ROOM": One of the rooms on the first floor of the Phoenix Building is this "counting room" in which sensitive instruments are used to determine the amount of radioactivity of materials. Prof. W. Wayne Meinke of the U-M chemistry department examines a Geiger counter.

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Ann Arbor News, June 8, 1955
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PHOENIX BUILDING LOBBY: Persons entering the laboratory walk through a small vestibule and into this lobby. University officials have scheduled "open house" at the building tomorrow afternoon. Guides will be available for conducted tours.

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Ann Arbor News, June 8, 1955
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LABORATORY GREENHOUSE: Extending to the south of the Phoenix building is this greenhouse, in which plants will be grown and stored for research. The University, through the Phoenix Project, is pioneering in research which uses radioactive solutions to race the paths of materials absorbed in the leaves of plants. This study is of primary importance to botanists interested in plant growth.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, June 9, 1955
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HERE FOR PHOENIX LABORATORY DEDICATION: Prominent in dedication ceremonies this morning for the new $1,500,000 Phoenix Memorial Laboratory on the University's North Campus were (left to right): U-M President Harlan Hatcher; Detroit Edison Co. President Walker L. Cisler, who gave the dedication address; Dean of the U-M Graduate School Ralph A. Sawyer, director of the Phoenix Project; Chester H. Lang, vice-president of General Electric Co. and national chairman of fund-raising for the Phoenix Project; and George W. Romney, president of American Motors Corp. who presented the Mason Memorial Library honoring the late George W. Mason, former president of American Motors, to the laboratory. (Story on page 19.)

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, March 4, 1967
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Phoenix Memorial Laboratory