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Boice was born in Brooklyn, New York in December 1945. His father, John Dunning Boice Sr., served in the United States Army Air Corps.His mother, Irene, was the daughter of a Pennsylvania coal miner.
John Robert Cunningham, OC (January 5, 1927 – January 4, 2020) was a Canadian medical physicist who was noted for his contributions in the development of computerized radiation treatment planning dose calculations in radiation therapy.
John Howard Hubbell (1925 – March 31, 2007) was an American radiation physicist born in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He was on the staff of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) (formerly National Bureau of Standards) from 1950 until 1988, when he retired. [1] He remained a contractor to NIST until he died in 2007. [2]
Unprotected experiments in the U.S. in 1896 with an early X-ray tube (Crookes tube), when the dangers of radiation were largely unknown.[1]The history of radiation protection begins at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries with the realization that ionizing radiation from natural and artificial sources can have harmful effects on living organisms.
John B. Little (October 5, 1929 – May 24, 2020) was an American radiobiologist who was the James Stevens Simmons Professor of Radiobiology Emeritus at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health from 2006 until his death in 2020. [1] [2] He graduated from Harvard College (physics,1951) and Boston University Medical School (MD, 1955). [3]
The double-detriment life-table approach is what is recommended by the NPRC [10] to measure radiation cancer mortality risks. The age-specific mortality of a population is followed over its entire life span with competing risks from radiation and all other causes of death described. [27] [28]
Hogestyn first portrayed spy and investigator John Black on “Days of Our Lives” in January 1986 and appeared on more than 4,200 episodes of the show, according to IM Db.
Radiolab airs as a one-hour broadcast each week while its podcast releases new episodes of varying lengths usually biweekly. For a few years, the Radiolab podcast feed featured a full-hour episode every six weeks, announced by the hosts as Radiolab: The Podcast , interspersed with two shorter pieces known as "shorts."