Response to 1981 History of Nuclear Physics Survey, 1982.

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Response to 1981 History of Nuclear Physics Survey, 1982.

Biographical data and three-page, typed response to the questionnaire, including Winard's discussion of his two years at the Institut du Radium in Paris (1932-1934) when Marie Curie was its head, his education at the Université de Liège, his theoretical work during World War II in Belgium, his work with cyclotrons and his interest in nuclear medicine, and a short discussion of funding, teaching, and the atmosphere in which his research has been carried out.

7 pp.

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