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Samuel Curran
Scottish physicist and academic official · United Kingdom · On the map · Scientists · Lived 1912 to 1998 · aged 85
Sir Samuel Crowe Curran, FRS, FRSE was a Scottish physicist and academic who was the first Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Strathclyde - the first of the new technical universities in Britain. He is the inventor of the scintillation counter, the proportional counter, and the proximity fuze.
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