How Well Can We Assess Genetic Risk? Not Very; The Lauriston S. Taylor Lecture Series in Radiation Protection and Measurements, Lecture No. 5

Crow, James F.

Edité par National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements, Washington DC, 1981

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[4], 36 pages. Figures. References. Ex-library with usual library markings, some of which are blacked out. The National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP), formerly the National Committee on Radiation Protection and Measurements, and before that the Advisory Committee on X-Ray and Radium Protection (ACXRP), is a U.S. organization. It has a congressional charter under Title 36 of the United States Code, but this does not imply any sort of oversight by Congress; NCRP is not a government entity. The Advisory Committee on X-Ray and Radium Protection was established in 1929. Initially, the organization was an informal collective of scientists seeking to proffer accurate information and appropriate recommendations for radiation protection. In 1946, the organization changed its name to the National Committee on Radiation Protection and Measurements. In 1964, the U.S. Congress reorganized and chartered the organization as the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements. Lauriston S. Taylor was an American physicist known for his work in the field of radiation protection and measurement. He established standards for X-ray radiation exposure for the first time in the 1920s. James Franklin Crow (January 18, 1916 - January 4, 2012) was Professor Emeritus of Genetics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a prominent population geneticist whose career spanned from the modern synthesis to the genomic era. Some of his most significant peer-reviewed contributions were coauthored with Motoo Kimura, including those leading to the neutral theory of molecular evolution. He also wrote an influential introductory textbook on genetics and a more advanced one with Kimura. His graduate and undergraduate students and postdocs includes Alexey Kondrashov, James Bull, Joe Felsenstein, Russell Lande, Dan Hartl, and Wen-Hsiung Li. He was a president of both the Genetics Society of America and the American Society of Human Genetics. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, The American Philosophical Society, the World Academy of Art and Science, the National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS).

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• Titre: How Well Can We Assess Genetic Risk? Not Very; The Lauriston S. Taylor Lecture Series in Radiation Protection and Measurements, Lecture No. 5
• Éditeur: National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements, Washington DC
• Date de parution: 1981
• Reliure: Wraps
• Édition: Presumed First Edition, First printing.
• État de l'article: Good