Terahertz Pioneer: Frank C. De Lucia - "The Numbers Count"

Abstract

The Iowa town of Mt. Pleasant was home to a family run restaurant and hotel owned by Frank De Lucia Sr., a trained chemist who became a self-described "innkeeper and entrepreneur" after World War II. Perhaps because of his background, the restaurant was host to some notable science patrons, including Mt. Pleasant native son and personal friend, Jim Van Allen—long time Physics chair at University of Iowa, early rocketeer, and, with an instrument on Explorer I in 1958, discoverer of the charged particle belt around the Earth that bears his name.

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