Henry T. Sampson Jr.

CTL-E-1054 · Institution · other · unspecified

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Henry T. Sampson Jr., with George H. Miley, was awarded US 3,591,860 on 1971-07-06 for the gamma-electric cell, a device converting gamma radiation into electricity.

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Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from TECH-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-TECH-001:TECH-E-042; source research type(s): None. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

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