Radiation-induced Chromosome Aberrations: Report of a Conference on Biochemical and Biophysical Mechanisms in the Production of Radiation-Induced Chromosome Aberrations held November 16-18, 1961

Edité par Columbia University Press, New York, 1963

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xii, 304 p. illus., diagrs., tables. 24 cm. References. The conference was organized by the Subcommittee on Radiobiology of the Committee on Nuclear Science, National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council. The contributors included: K. C. Atwood, C. Auerbach, A. D. Conger, E.H. Y. Chu, H. J. Evans, B. Kihlman, J. A. Kirby-Smith, D. L. Lindsley, S. H. Revell, C. P. Swanson, J H. Taylor, and G. Yerganian. This book is a report of the ninth in a series of conferences on basic mechanisms in Radiobiology. The purpose of these conferences was to bring together scientists from different disciplines so that they might consider various aspects. From an obituary posted on-line: "Dr. Sheldon Wolff, a UCSF scientist whose research led to major insights in understanding the human effects of nuclear radiation, died of pulmonary fibrosis at his home in Mill Valley on May 24 after a long illness. He was 79. Dr. Wolff was widely honored for his discovery that the body's genetic machinery possessed natural mechanisms for repairing cell damage caused by exposure to extremely low levels of radiation. Those "repaired" cells, he found, then showed less damage after exposure to higher levels of radiation, and also to chemicals that ordinarily cause genetic mutations. He was born in Peabody, Mass., and received his bachelor's degree in 1950 from Tufts College in Medford, Mass., and his master's degree in 1951 from Harvard. He joined the biology division of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee after earning his doctorate from Harvard in 1953, and began his studies of radiation-induced cell damage there. He was recruited to become a professor of cell genetics and radiology at UCSF in 1966-a post he held for the rest of his career, while continuing his pioneering radiation studies. He was also the director of the laboratory of radiobiology and environmental health at the medical center in San Francisco. During those years, Dr. Wolff served on many scientific committees for the National Institutes of Health, and for nine years he chaired the U.S. Department of Energy's Health and Environmental Research Advisory Committee. He was also an adviser to the European Community's research program on low-dose radiation-a program run by the United Nations through the International Atomic Agency. Already a professor emeritus at UCSF, Dr. Wolff served from 1996 to 2000 as vice chairman and chief of research at the Radiation Effects Research Foundation in Hiroshima, Japan. Among his many honors was the prestigious 1973 Ernest Orlando Lawrence Memorial Award, given by the U.S. Department of Energy to a scientist who has "helped elevate American physics to world leadership" and for laying the foundation for studies on genetic repair mechanisms following low-level exposure to radiation. He also won the 1982 Environmental Mutagen Society Award and the 1992 Failla Lectureship and Gold Medal from the Radiation Research Society, of which he had been president. In 1998, he and the organization he served in Hiroshima received the first Leonard Sagan "BELLE" award for their work studying the biological effects of low-level exposure to radiation." Good in good dust jacket. DJ has some wear, soiling, edge tears and chips. Pencil residue on fep.…

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Titre
Radiation-induced Chromosome Aberrations: Report of a Conference on Biochemical and Biophysical Mechanisms in the Production of Radiation-Induced Chromosome Aberrations held November 16-18, 1961
Auteur
Wolff, Sheldon (Editor)
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Columbia University Press, New York
Année de publication
1963
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Hardcover
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Presumed first edition/first printing.

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