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Areas of Interest, at this time (2015)

 * the History of Science and Scientists
 * Health physics, Health physicists and Physicists

Origins of Equipment names

 * Marinelli beaker
 * Eberline instruments
 * Victoreen instruments
 * Ludlum Measurements Inc.
 * Landauer dosimetry
 * N. Wood Counter
 * Kanne chamber
 * Howard Cary vibrating reed electrometer chamber
 * Shonka ionization chamber
 * Bonner sphere
 * Landsverk
 * Geiger Mueller tube

Origin of Terms

 * Townsend avalanche
 * Compton scattering

Health Physics Society
Formation of and founding members
 * Herbert Mermagen served on the Health Physics Society, Board of Directors from 1955-1957.

In the midyear issue of Science the announcement came of the formation new national scientific organization for health physicists at the 3 day Health Physics Conference at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio on 14 June 1955. The organization was temporarily named "Health Physics Society", and Karl Z. Morgan of the Health Physics Division of Oak Ridge National Laboratory was elected interim president. Other interim officers are:
 * Frederick P. Cowan, Head, Health Physics Division Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, N.Y., vice president, and
 * Elda E. Anderson, director of the education and training department of the Health Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, secretary-treasurer.

First Board of Directors
Talks regarding the formation of a professional society had been ongoing for several years. The health physicists had decided to form an independent organization rather than attach to an existing group. Directors of the Health Physics Society included:
 * Herbert Mermagen, University of Rochester, Rochester, N.Y.
 * Edgar Charles Barnes, manager of industrial hygiene, Westinghouse Atomic Power Division, Bettis Field, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
 * John W. 'Jack' Healy, General Electric Co., Hanford, Washington
 * William Taylor Ham, professor of biophysics, Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia
 * C. Maurice Patterson, DuPont Atomic Energy Plant, Aiken, S.C.
 * G. W. C. Tait, Health Physics Branch, Atomic Energy Co. of Canada, Ltd., Chalk River, Ontario, Canada
 * Francis J. Bradley, superintendent of radiation safety at Ohio State University and organizer of the first Health Physics Society Conference
 * William E. Nolan, Radiation Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California
 * Walter Dunhan Claus, (annual salary $12,000), Division of Biology and Medicine, Biophysics Branch, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, Washington, D.C.
 * John E. Pickering, department of radiobiology, School of Aviation Medicine, Randolph Air Force Base, Texas

Works Posted
Here are some of the subjects I am working on and have an interest in these days.
 * Rolf Heinrich Sabersky (20 October 1920 - ) professor emeritus in mechanical engineering at Caltech.
 * Miriam Posner Finkel (22 January 1916 – 20 August 1999), pioneer radiobiologist, isolated FBJ virus, developed FOS gene
 * Herta Regina Leng
 * Ebb Cade - human Pu experiments, created on 30 May 2015
 * Eleanor Josephine Macdonald, created on 23 May 2015
 * Shields Warren
 * James Ralston Kennedy Paterson, created on 25 May 2015 - radiologist and oncologist in Scotland. Along with Herbert Parker, pioneered the development of the Paterson-Parker rules for the Radium Dosage System also known as the Manchester system.
 * Dr. Gilbert Wheeler Beebe, 1912-2003
 * Heinrich Mache, the original unit for Radon measurement. Published 4 June 2014
 * Albert Johnston, captain, fished through The Perfect Storm and lived to tell about the event. Published 8 June 2014
 * Robley D. Evans (physicist), health physicist.
 * Barnard Medal for Meritorious Service to Science
 * Henry Harrington Janeway gave Gioacchino Failla his first job.
 * National Radium Institute

HPS

 * G. William Morgan, created on 21 August 2014
 * James Newell Stannard, created on 23 June 2014

Board of Directors, Founders

 * Francis J. Bradley, created on 7 June 2015
 * William Edward Nolan, Jr., created on 23 May 2015
 * Jack Healy, created 17 August 2014
 * Walter Dunhan Claus, created on 14 August 2014
 * John E. Pickering, created on 14 August 2014
 * G. W. C. Tait, created on 10 August 2014
 * C. Maurice Patterson, created on 10 August 2014
 * William Taylor Ham, created on 8 August 2014
 * Edgar Charles Barnes, created on 6 August 2014
 * Herbert Mermagen, created on 20 July 2014

Works in Progress

 * Anselm Franz and Junkers (aircraft) - add Junkers info
 * Ivan Puluj Ukrainian radiologist, just missed being discoverer of X-rays
 * Howard Clayton Eberline
 * Miriam Posner Finkel (1916-1999), pioneer radiobiologist, isolated FBJ virus, developed FOS gene
 * Margaret Lindsay Huggins, astronomer
 * Elizabeth Riddle Graves, physicist, pioneer in the physics of neutrons and the detection and measurement of fast neutrons. Part of the Metallurgical Laboratory staff and group leader at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory.
 * Álvaro Alvim, radiologist
 * William E. Nolan - DRAFT
 * Wright Haskell Langham
 * List of scientists whose names are used as non SI units
 * John E. Rose first Health physicist, work with Leonidas D. Marinelli
 * Crocker Radiation Laboratory
 * Wilhelm Exner Medal Foundation
 * Norman Hilberry, see SCRAM
 * **Loomis Laboratory for Research in Experimental Pathology, see James Ewing pathologist
 * Institute for Radium Research, Vienna [see this page for reference to Suess helping Curies]

Health Phys. 1978 Jul;35(1):5-6.
 * **James Douglas (businessman)
 * **Leonidas D. Marinelli, 28 November 1906 - 13 September 1974, born in Argentina and died in Hinsdale, Illinois.
 * **Leonidas D. Marinelli regarding the Marinelli beaker is found in a report by R.F. Hill, G.J. Hine and L.D. Marinelli (1950) of the Sloan-Kettering Institute in New York : “This equipment first designed by one of the present authors (L.D.M.) and in use in this laboratory since 1943, can now be obtained from Technical Associates, Inc. Glendale, California.”
 * ** see also http://www.einstein.yu.edu/docs/departments/medicine/endocrinology/reference8.pdf ; Edward Siegel, Ph.D 25 May 1984


 * **Radiation Dosimetry and Protection

Marinelli, LD, (December 1953), Annual Review of Nuclear Science, Vol. 3: 249-270 (Volume publication date December 1953), DOI:10.1146/annurev.ns.03.120153.001341

Argonne National Laboratory, Radiological Physics Division, 1964, 278 pages
 * **Radiological Physics Division Annual Report: July 1963 Through June 1964, L. D. Marinelli, Argonne National Laboratory

Stamps - Science, Nuclear; People and Events

 * Stamps, science related and historical events and people in science.

Other Projects

 * Nancy Wood, and N. Wood Counter Laboratory
 * *Paul C. Aebersold and Paul C. Aebersold Award
 * Willian G. Myers, MD, PhD


 * Herbert Mermagen
 * Warren Keith Sinclair, NCRP
 * Francis Carter Wood, updated content and added photo
 * Robert Spencer Stone pioneer in the investigation of ionizing radiation and X-Ray therapy
 * Center for Radiological Research, Eric Hall
 * Eleanor Montague, M.D., 1985 Janeway Medal
 * Virginia Kneeland Frantz, student of Arthur Purdy Stout, noted alumnae of Brearley School, Columbia named award after her and presented to Rita Charon
 * Lauriston S. Taylor
 * James Newell Stannard
 * ** Atomic Energy Project
 * ** William Freer Bale
 * ** Joe Wiseman Howland


 * American Radium Society
 * National Radium Institute


 * Henri Coutard, M.D., 1876-1950; see History of radiation therapy
 * Roberts Rugh, radiobiologist and embryologist

John D. Boice, Jr., epidemiologist and health physicist

 * *Richard Monson
 * *Brian MacMahon
 * *George Hutchison
 * NCRP

Dr. Gioacchino Failla

 * Oak Ridge Associated Universitie. "Seeds (ca. 1940s - 1960s)". Health Physics Historical Instrumentation Collection. Retrieved 12 November 2012.
 * Urey, H. and Failla, G. (15 March 1935). "CONCERNING THE TASTE OF HEAVY WATER. Science. 81 (2098): 273.
 * Pattipati Ramaiah Naidu
 * Edith Quimby
 * Janeway Medal

James Ewing pathologist

 * **S.P. Beebe
 * **Loomis Laboratory for Research in Experimental Pathology
 * **Harvey Society
 * **National Radium Institute
 * **Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
 * **Leonidas D. Marinelli, 28 November 1906 - 13 September 1974, born in Argentina and died in Hinsdale, Illinois.

More References, especially related to Radioactivity and Birds
in November.” Bull. B.O.C.. 76 : 23-5. Redshank in association with possible radioactive contamination.” Bull. B.O.C. 76 : 60-1. breeding plumage of the Weaver Finch, Quelea quelea.” Nature, 187 : 615-6. low-level atomic wastes.” Science, 132 : 158-60.
 * Harrison, J. M. and J. G. 1956a. “ An Icelandic Redshank in freshly moulted summer plumage
 * Harrison, J. M. and J. G. 1956b. “ Abnormal season assumption of spring plumage in the
 * Lofts, B., Marshall , A. J. and Rotblat , J. 1960. “ Effects of whole-body irradiation o n the
 * Willard, W . K. 1960. “ Avian uptake of fission products from an area contaminated by
 * Williams, J. G. 1955. “ Birds from Siberia in summer plumage.” The Times 10 Dec. 1955.

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