ID: ind05549
Name: Gorton Rosa FONDA
Given Name: Gorton Rosa
Surname: Fonda
Sex: M
Birth: 27 NOV 1884
Death: DEC 1973
Age: 89y 1m
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Dr. Gorton R. Fonda demonstrating the difference in illumination given off by a lamp coated with fluorescent material (top) and ordinary MAZDA lamp of same ratings. Location: Research Laboratory at GE Schenectady Works (25 Oct 1937). General Electric photograph. Courtesy of the Schenectady Museum.
Note: b. NY; 1900 US Federal Census, Yonkers Ward 1, Westchester Co., NY (Gordon Fonda, Son, b. Mar 1887 in NY, Thomas, Mary); 1920 & 1930 US Federal Census, Schenectady, Schenectady Co., NY; 1940 US Federal Census, Schenectady, Schenectady Co., NY (Gorton R Fonda, b. 1885, NY, Head, Alice); SSDI Getzville, Erie, NY; bur. Evergreen Cemetery, Fonda, Montgomery Co., NY; Research Chemist, worked nearly 40 years for General Electric Laboratory, attributed with design for radar screen for National Defense Research Council in 1941; G. R. Fonda, Phys. Rev. 21, 343 (1923); Foundations of Vacuum Science and Technology (1916); graduate of College of the City of NY and University of Karlsruhe, Baden, GER; o. Research PhD Chemist; [New York Times: Jan 4, 1950 - Dr. Fonda Retires from G. E. - Dr. Gorton R. Fonda, Research Chemist in the General Electric Research Laboratory, has retired after nearly forty years' service. Dr. Fonda and his associates developed the American version of the radar screen fourteen days after the problem had been assigned to the laboratory. The screen, upon which the radar signals are translated into visible light, was designed by Dr. Fonda and his associates at the behest of the National Defense Research Council during the year preceding the bombing of Pearl Harbor.]; [http://www.freepatentsonline.com/3975219.html Additional references which bear on this subject include "Crystal Growth in Metals" by G. R. Fonda in General Electric Review, Volume 25, May 1922, pages 305-315]; [http://www.freepatentsonline.com/4315190.html To facilitate the formation of zinc silicate phosphors, it has been the practice to employ alkali metal or alkaline earth metal salts as fluxes during firing steps as taught by U.S. Pat. No. 2,247,192 to Fonda. The use of such fluxes is not desirable, however, in producing arsenic-containing zinc silicate phosphors since fluxes such as lithium chloride can completely quench the beneficial effect of extended fluorescence decay produced by arsenic in such phosphors {see for example Froelich and Fonda in J. Phys. Chem., 46:878-885 (1942)}.]; [http://www.freepatentsonline.com/4226740.html In Fonda, U.S. Pat. No. 2,447,322, iron compounds are disclosed as storage agents to retard the exhaustion of infra-red luminescence.]; [http://www.freepatentsonline.com/4099090.html Discharge devices which utilize organic phosphor or luminescent material are known and are described in U.S. Pat. No. 2,177,701 dated Oct. 31, 1939 to Fonda.]; [World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 - Jordon Rosa Fonda (Gordon); White; b. 27 Nov 1884; Registration Place: Schenectady, Schenectady Co., NY]; [U.S. Passport Applications, 1795-1925 - Name: Gorton R Fonda; Birth Date: 27-Nov-1884; Birth Location: New York City, New York; Passport Issue Date: 10-Nov-1920; Residence Location: Schenectady, New York]; [New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957 - Name: Gorton Fonda, Arrival Date: 4-Apr-1910, Estimated Birth Year: , Gender: Male, Port of Departure: Southampton, England, Ethnicity/Nationality: , Ship Name: Minnehaha]; [New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957 - Name: Gorton Fonda, Arrival Date: 23-Jul-1921, Estimated Birth Year: abt 1885, Gender: Male, Port of Departure: Southampton, England, Ethnicity/Nationality: , Ship Name: Aquitania]; [New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957 - Name: Gorton Fonda, Arrival Date: 30-Nov-1926, Estimated Birth Year: 1889, Gender: Male, Port of Departure: Cherbourg, France, Ethnicity/Nationality: , Ship Name: Olympic]; [UK Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960 - Name: Gorton Fonda, Arrival Date: 3/25/1954, Estimated Birth Year: abt 1885 , Gender: , Port of Departure: New York, New York, United States , Ethnicity/Nationality: , Ship Name: Southampton, England] >> www.fonda.org <<
Father: Thomas Cole FONDA b: OCT 1854
Mother: Nellie ROSA b: 1856
Marriage 1
Alice Baldwin CHAPMAN b: 23 OCT 1900
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