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HONORARY associate membership has been conferred by the Pan American Medical Association upon the following well-known non-medical men of science: Dr. William David Coolidge, director of the research laboratories of the General Electric Co. at Schenectady, N.Y.; Mr. Myron Weiss, associate editor of Time Newsmagazine, New York, N.Y. Dr. Coolidge, physical chemist, was recommended for his perfection of X-ray tubes. Coolidge tubes enable X-ray specialists to make positive diagnoses of many diseases of the internal organs musculature and skeleton of the human body. Coolidge tubes are also used to destroy certain kinds of cancer. Mr. Weiss, journalist, was recommended in recognition of his outstanding services in disseminating medical and scientific information to the lay public and of his diligent promotion of goodwill among the nations whose medical men compose the Pan American Medical Association.
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The Pan American Medical Association. Nature 137, 736 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137736e0
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