Arthur John Ruhlig

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Arthur (``Art'') J. Ruhlig was born in the Detroit suburb of Wayne, Michigan on 13 Jun 1912 to Otto and Susan Ruhlig (nee Sell). He married
Emily Alverna Taisey; they had several children. He was a student of Horace Richard ``Dick'' Crane in the graduate program of the Department
of Physics at the University of Michigan. He began graduate work in 1933 and was awarded a doctorate degree in January of 1938 for the study
of ``The passage of fast electrons and positrons through lead.'' He published a perhaps strangely neglected letter -- given its import for
the potential of terrestrial fusion -- titled, ``Search for Gamma-Rays from the Deuteron-Deuteron Reaction'' in the \textit{Physical
Review}, dated 1 August 1938 in which he adjudged the reaction D(T,n)alpha to be ``exceedingly probable.'' This judgement was based on a
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