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Title	Ordinary Seaman (Officer Candidate UNTD) (RCNVR)
Official Number	V-62166

Birth	11/12/1924	Death	06/01/2008
Place	Victoria	Place	Victoria
Area	BC	Area	BC
Country	Canada	Country	Canada

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Qualifications	PhD.

Biography
He was living in Victoria BC at the time of his recruitment. He graduated from the University of British Columbia, receiving a BA (1946) with First Honors in Physics and an MA (1948) in Physics and Mathematics. From 1945 till 1947 he was an instructor in Physics at the University of British Columbia. In 1948 he received a U.S. Navy Scholarship to the University of Notre Dame where his PhD thesis published in 1951 was the first detailed study of the motion in large organic molecules using nuclear magnetic resonance. In the period 1951-54 he was an Assistant Research Specialist at Rutgers University Physics Department and a junior member of the Estermann Committee of the Office of Naval Research concerned with the development of magnetic resonance type submarine detectors. He was also an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Rutgers. In 1954 he joined the Schlumberger Corporation to continue work on magnetic devices and built a number of NMR instruments one of which became the prototype of an NMR Analyzer widely used in the food industry. He joined Varian Associated in Palo Alto in 1962 and the family moved to Los Altos Hills where he spent the rest of his life. He continued to work in the field of the NMR with Varian and in 1984 became project manager for a new Varian venture to combine NMR spectroscopy and NMR imaging for medical diagnostic use, creating what we know today as the MRl. After retirement he became an independent consultant in biophysics and radiology. He has been an adjunct professor of biophysics and radiology in the University of California System and a special lecturer at Universities around the world.

Biography

He was living in Victoria BC at the time of his recruitment. He graduated from the University of British Columbia, receiving a BA (1946) with First Honors in Physics and an MA (1948) in Physics and Mathematics. From 1945 till 1947 he was an instructor in Physics at the University of British Columbia. In 1948 he received a U.S. Navy Scholarship to the University of Notre Dame where his PhD thesis published in 1951 was the first detailed study of the motion in large organic molecules using nuclear magnetic resonance. In the period 1951-54 he was an Assistant Research Specialist at Rutgers University Physics Department and a junior member of the Estermann Committee of the Office of Naval Research concerned with the development of magnetic resonance type submarine detectors. He was also an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Rutgers. In 1954 he joined the Schlumberger Corporation to continue work on magnetic devices and built a number of NMR instruments one of which became the prototype of an NMR Analyzer widely used in the food industry. He joined Varian Associated in Palo Alto in 1962 and the family moved to Los Altos Hills where he spent the rest of his life. He continued to work in the field of the NMR with Varian and in 1984 became project manager for a new Varian venture to combine NMR spectroscopy and NMR imaging for medical diagnostic use, creating what we know today as the MRl. After retirement he became an independent consultant in biophysics and radiology. He has been an adjunct professor of biophysics and radiology in the University of California System and a special lecturer at Universities around the world.

Military Service
He was appointed as an Ordinary Seaman (Officer Candidate UNTD) RCNVR 1943. He served in HMCS Discovery for UNTD 1943. He served in HMCS Naden 1943. He served in HMCS Royal Roads 1943. He qualified as a Radar Operator. He served with the USN 1944. He served in HMCS Shediac 1945. (He was demobilized.)

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http://www.untd.org/; Bill Clearihue (Nominal List UNTD); Bill Clearihue (Nominal List UNTD);
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2015-01-03 00:00:00

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