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RICHARD W. JOHNSTON 1917 -1961 Richard W. Johnston, chief of the Radiological Physics and Instrumentation Branch of the Division of Biology and Medicine of the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission died on November 17, 1961 in Bethesda, Maryland. He is survived by his wife Jane T. Johnston, and a 5-year old daughter, Michelle. Dick was active in the organization of the Scintillation Counter Symposia from 1952 until the time of his death. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1917 and graduated from the Massachusetts Insti- tute of Technology in 1947 where he majored in electrical engineering. During World War II he was in the U. S. Army, assigned to the Manhattan Project at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Mr. Johnston joined the AEC in 1948 and was named chief of the Technical Coordination Section of the Radiation Instruments Branch in 1952. In 1957 he was named head of the entire branch, the position he held at the time of his death. In 1953 he was awarded the Arthur S. Fleming Award for outstanding young men in government service. Mr. Johnston was a senior member of the IRE, a member of the Administrative Committee of the Professional Group on Nuclear Science, and a member of the IRE Nuelear Techniques Committee. He was chairman of the Nuclear Techniques Committee from 1958 to 1960. He was also a member of the Instrument Society of America, the Electronics Industries Association, and the American Standards Society and served as chairman of the ASA Technical Committee on Nuclear Instrumentation. We miss Dick as a colleague and as a friend. George A. Morton Louis Costrell Chairman, 8th Scintillation and Chairman, Professional Group Semiconductor Counter Symposium on Nuclear Science iii
