Low-Level Irradiation

MONOGRAPH ON EFFECTS OF EXPOSURE TO LOW LEVEL RADIATION BY EXPERT AMERICAN RADIATION BIOLOGIST IN THE COLD WAR. 9 1/4 inches tall hardcover, gray cloth binding with blue cloth spine with gilt title, illustrations. residue from small sticker removed from cover, corners bumped, institutional library handstamps to front free endpaper and title page, overall very good. Austin Moore Brues (1906 - 1991) was a pioneer in radiation biology who studied the effects of the atomic bombs dropped on Japan. Dr. Brues was the senior biologist at the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois from 1946 to 1971. He became a professor of medicine at the University of Chicago in 1945 and was named professor emeritus in 1979. A 1930 graduate of Harvard University Medical School, he studied the biological effects of exposure to radiation and radioactive materials. He served as an expert to the Secretary of War in a study of casualties of the bombings at Nagasaki and Hiroshima and was a consultant to national and international commissions studying the long-term effects of radiation.

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Publisher: American Associaton for the Advancement of Science

Year: 1959

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

First Edition

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