ABERDEEN, Md. — The Army is honoring a nuclear physicist who figured out how to measure radiation in the environment after a nuclear explosion.
Stanley Kronenberg is among five people the Army is inducting Thursday into a new hall of fame for the Communications-Electronics Command at Aberdeen Proving Ground.
The Polish-born scientist was working at the command's former home, Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, when he invented a device called a SEMIRAD detector in 1968 to measure the nuclear environment.
The command says in a statement that Kronenberg's contributions to nuclear radiation detection formed the foundation for the field and remain valid today.
Kronenberg died in 2000.
The communications command relocated to Aberdeen when the Army closed Fort Monmouth in 2011.
