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Gordon T. Danby, Ph.D., a Brookhaven National Lab physicist known for his contribution to the Maglev project in the 1960s, died on Tuesday. He was 86.
Danby joined Brookhaven National Lab in 1957, shortly after his colleague James Powell, Ph.D., joined the nuclear engineering department. On a road trip, Powell came up with idea that would serve as a turning point in both mens' lives.
"I got stuck in a five-hour traffic jam and thought, 'There must be a better way to go cross-country,'"...