During
World War II, , as civil service, alongside then student
Dick Feynman and others, he worked in the
Princeton facility of the
Manhattan Project assisting in producing uranium-235. Between 1949 and 1953, Murray worked at
National Cancer Institute.
Harvard Medical School, the
NIH and the
World Health Organization. Murray headed the
NIH's
Biomedical Engineering and Instrumentation Program (BEIP) since 1979 and retired from BEIP in 1994. Since Eden's retirement, under merged leadership, the BEIP program has been facing significant challenges. and was a consultant on
research and development for its director-general. Murray was also a lecturer, a visiting professor or adjunct professor at various institutions, including at:
Harvard University,
American University,
Boston University Law School,
Johns Hopkins University as well as (in the 80s As chairman of a committee of scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he helped
select a symbol that would endure the inevitable rush of technology that lay ahead. He chose the font, and he came up with the idea to add numbers to the bottom, which is a failsafe system, in case the code reader is down. ==Views==