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Died. Dr. Willis Rodney Whitney, 89, cheerful, kindly industrial scientist, founder and longtime (1900-32) director of General Electric's Research Laboratory; of a heart attack; in Schenectady. Drafted by G.E. from M.I.T. (where he developed the now accepted electrochemical theory of corrosion), Researcher Whitney set up the country's first industrial-research lab in a Schenectady barn, spurred on an alert crew of scientists (including William D. Coolidge, Irving Langmuir) to develop the modern electric-light bulb and turn out a wide assortment of major electronic discoveries.