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whim mil i ii i lip mil, i iy Hpun iiiiiifMiiniMniiiimyiiy yiiy i ijmj iin i 1 4 fignrng i THE HARTFORD COURANT: Saturday, January 12, 1991 B9 CIH3I03 30m WEBBN. 10DU Carl D. Anderson, 85; physicist won Nobel Prize WDft DDI BDI2 "57 o) rvJJ nil Anderson assembled a device called a "magnet cloud chamber," partly by borrowing equipment from a Southern California Edison salvage yard. Anderson was 27 when his photographic studies of cosmic rays showed strange postively charged patterns that he concluded could only be caused by electrons. Until then, physicists believed all electrons had a negative charge.

His hypothesis met a wall of resistance. The notion of Anderson's "positron" suggested the complexities of elementary-particle physics were far greater that most physicists had imagined. Within a few years, however, two other physicists independently confirmed Anderson's findings. The Nobel Prize soon followed, Anderson sharing the prize with Viktor F. Hess, who had discovered cosmic rays two decades earlier.

Later, Anderson and a collaborator, Seth Neddermeyer, discovered another new particle, now known as "meson." Although Anderson was best known for the positron, he was actually prouder of the meson, he said. He just stumbled upon the positron, he said, but the meson represented four years of detecting clues and resolving paradoxes. Los Angeles Times SAN MARINO, Calif. Nobel Prize-winning physicist Carl David Anderson, whose discovery of the subatomic particle known as the positron proved the existence of antimatter, died Friday at his home in this Los Angeles suburb, after a short illness. He was 85.

Anderson, who entered the California Institute of Technology in P4sadena, as an 18-year-old freshman and never left, was a key figure in an age in which such theorists as Albert Einstein and Enrico Fermi and experimentalists such as himself investigated the workings of the atom. Anderson recently spoke wistfully of his decades at Caltech, first as student under such figures as Oppen-heimer and Robert A. Millikan, and later as their colleague. Anderson was a graduate student specializing in X-ray research when, Millikan, who was himself a Nobel laureate, suggested he "was getting too provincial" and would benefit from studying at another major physics research center. A few months later, however, Millikan urged him to stay one more year to work on cosmic ray experiments.

TOGO RWff ma OOP sea tss Carolyn Widmer; 1st dean of UConn nursing school gl0CWT IT. FROM MOUTH AIRPQWT HO tnlru IN IMP 0 a Mc BmUi Hi.AilMI.fto 3it? (n.Er.cyriTiir.rfow Carolyn Ladd Widmer, the first dean of the school of nursing at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, died Thursday at Abbey Manor in Windham after a long illness. She was 88 and was a resident of Storrs. Widmer was appointed dean in August 1942 and organized the program for training nurses at UConn. She served nearly 25 years in the ppst, retiring in 1967.

After her retirement, she was executive secretary for Sigma Theta Tau, the National Honor Society of Nursing, for about seven years. before going to UConn, Widmer was director of the school of nursing and nursing services for the American University in Beirut for six years. Earlier, she had served as a public health nurse in Colombia. She also had been a member of the Yale School of Nursing faculty and was a head nurse and supervisor at Yale- AIRPORT RO FROM AT. fl SOUTH At tll go fight.

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He was a former resident of West Hartford. Vecchiolla was on the staff of St. Francis and the courtesy staff of Hartford and Mount Sinai hospitals. He had served as the student health physician for the School of NJirsing at St. Francis from 1959 to 1963.

Vecchiolla, who served his internship and residency at Boston City Hospital from 1954 to 1956, completed a research fellowship in cardiology in 1957. He also taught at the House of the Good Samaritan, Harvard Medical School, in Boston. He finished his medical training at St. Francis in 1958 as chief medical resident. Vecchiolla was a member of the and American medical associations, and was a former AtMZMG New Haven Hospital.

Widmer was a former president of the Connecticut State Nurses' Association and a former member of the State Board of Examiners for Nursing and the Connecticut League of Nursing Education. She was born in Randolph, and was raised in West Woodstock, Vt. She received a bachelor's from Wellesley College in 1923, a bachelor's in nursing from Yale University and a master's from Trinity College. She leaves two sons, Michael Widmer of Belmont, and Eric Widmer of Providence; six grandchildren; and two nephews. Funeral services will be Tuesday at 10 a.m.

at Storrs Congregational Church, Storrs, with the Rev. Eric Martin officiating. Burial will follow in Storrs Cemetery. Calling hours at the Potter Funeral Home, 456 Jackson Route 195, Willimantic, are Monday from 2 to 4 p.m. member of the board of directors of the Hartford Heart Association.

He was born in Rye, N.Y., and served with the 11th Airborne Division in the South Pacific from 1944 to 1946. After his discharge, Vecchiolla earned a bachelor's at Yale University in 1950 and received his medical degree at Columbia University in 1954. He leaves his wife, Elizabeth Riley Vecchiolla of Granby; his daughter, Andrea Dillon Vecchiolla of West Hartford; his son, Christopher J. Vecchiolla of Miami; and three brothers, Michael and Anthony Vecchiolla, both of Port Chester, N.Y., and Daniel Vecchiolla of Portland, Ore. A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated Monday at 10 a.m.

in St. Peter Claver Church, Pleasant Street, West Hartford. Private burial services will follow. Friends may call at Molloy Funeral Home, 906 Farmington West Hartford, Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m. WILLS Archdiocese of Hartford 134 Farmington Avenue Hartford, Conn.

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