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Gustav Bucky was a German physicist and radiologist, best known for his work with scattered x-rays which was improved upon by Hollis E. Potter and later came to be known as the Bucky-Potter grid. He also worked with Albert Einstein to patent a “light intensity self-adjusting camera.” - Bucky emigrated to the United States in 1923, settling in New York City. He returned to Germany briefly in 1930 before escaping persecution and moving back to the U.S. in 1933.

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Albert Einstein and Gustav Bucky, Leo Baeck Institute, F 5347B.