Dr. David Henry Dietz, retired Pulitzer Prize winning science editor for the Scripps-Howard Newspapers, died 9 DEC 1984 at the Margaret Wagner House of Benjamin Rose Institute in Cleveland Heights, Ohio at age 87. "Mr. Science of Press, it was David Dietz who blazed a trail that popularized science through his skill in deciphering its mysteries for easy public consumption." (The Cleveland Press, Page 1, 24 JAN 1977).
Born 06 OCT 1897 in Cleveland, he was a son of Henry W. and Hannah (Levi) Dietz. Mr. Dietz wrote the "Atomic Bomb" article for the Encyclopedia Britannica in 1946. That same year he accompanied the Joint Army-Navy Task Force One to Bikini Atoll to cover the atomic bomb rests for newspaper and radio. Many articles on atomic energy were subsequently written for the Britannica Yearbook.
He is survived by his wife Mrs. Dorothy (Cohen) Dietz, who he married in 1918 and three children Mrs. Doris Turner, Mrs. Patricia Morris, and David Dietz, Jr.
Born 06 OCT 1897 in Cleveland, he was a son of Henry W. and Hannah (Levi) Dietz. Mr. Dietz wrote the "Atomic Bomb" article for the Encyclopedia Britannica in 1946. That same year he accompanied the Joint Army-Navy Task Force One to Bikini Atoll to cover the atomic bomb rests for newspaper and radio. Many articles on atomic energy were subsequently written for the Britannica Yearbook.
He is survived by his wife Mrs. Dorothy (Cohen) Dietz, who he married in 1918 and three children Mrs. Doris Turner, Mrs. Patricia Morris, and David Dietz, Jr.
Dr. David Henry Dietz, retired Pulitzer Prize winning science editor for the Scripps-Howard Newspapers, died 9 DEC 1984 at the Margaret Wagner House of Benjamin Rose Institute in Cleveland Heights, Ohio at age 87. "Mr. Science of Press, it was David Dietz who blazed a trail that popularized science through his skill in deciphering its mysteries for easy public consumption." (The Cleveland Press, Page 1, 24 JAN 1977).
Born 06 OCT 1897 in Cleveland, he was a son of Henry W. and Hannah (Levi) Dietz. Mr. Dietz wrote the "Atomic Bomb" article for the Encyclopedia Britannica in 1946. That same year he accompanied the Joint Army-Navy Task Force One to Bikini Atoll to cover the atomic bomb rests for newspaper and radio. Many articles on atomic energy were subsequently written for the Britannica Yearbook.
He is survived by his wife Mrs. Dorothy (Cohen) Dietz, who he married in 1918 and three children Mrs. Doris Turner, Mrs. Patricia Morris, and David Dietz, Jr.
Born 06 OCT 1897 in Cleveland, he was a son of Henry W. and Hannah (Levi) Dietz. Mr. Dietz wrote the "Atomic Bomb" article for the Encyclopedia Britannica in 1946. That same year he accompanied the Joint Army-Navy Task Force One to Bikini Atoll to cover the atomic bomb rests for newspaper and radio. Many articles on atomic energy were subsequently written for the Britannica Yearbook.
He is survived by his wife Mrs. Dorothy (Cohen) Dietz, who he married in 1918 and three children Mrs. Doris Turner, Mrs. Patricia Morris, and David Dietz, Jr.
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