Herbert M. Parker papers 1938-1984 1966-1982

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Herbert M. Parker papers 1938-1984 1966-1982

Papers of a radiation physicist and co-inventor of the Paterson-Parker Radium Therapy System

11.83 cubic feet; 13 boxes

eng,

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SNAC Resource ID: 6366532

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Pacific northwest laboratory

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U.S. Atomic Energy Commission

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This collection of transparencies was used by representatives of the Atomic Energy Commission (A.E.C.) during a presentation before the Alaska House State Affairs Committee, April 4, 1970, in Juneau. At the time of the presentation, the A.E.C. was planning a second underground nuclear test on Amchitka Island in 1971, code-named CANNIKIN. Testimony was heard from several groups against a second test as well as adverse testimony about the first test which took place in October, 1969 and was code n...

National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements.

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U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

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Mancuso, Thomas F.

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Parker, Herbert M

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Herbert Parker was a radiation physicist and co-inventor of the Paterson-Parker Radium Therapy System. He was born in England in 1910, studied at the University of Manchester and the Holt Radium Institute in Manchester. He came to the U.S. and worked on nuclear projects during WWII at the Manhattan Project in Chicago and at Oak Ridge. He came to Hanford, WA in 1944 to head the operational radiation protection program and stayed to develop research and development programs in the rad...