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Herbert M. Parker
Herbert M. Parker
Pages 278-283
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Cantril, a radiologist at the institute who, together with Parker, was to play a prominent role in the wartime atomic energy program. In 1942 Parker joined the University of Chicago's "Metallurgical Laboratories," the assembly site for the nucleus of the Manhattan Project.
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The use of this meager information to design procedures that safeguarcled atomic energy workers and the public from the effects of ionizing radiation was one of the truly remarkable and unheralded technological achievements of the Manhattan Project. New instrumentation had to be developed, people trained, and procedures instituter!
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He was also among the first scientists to undertake quantitative assessments of the effects of reactor accidents, presenting a landmark paper on the subject at the first United Nations Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy in 1955. In 1947, when the operation of Hanford was transferred from Du Pont to General Electric, Parker became manager of operational and research activities in ractiological sciences.
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The extraordinary safety record of the atomic energy industry in the United States and elsewhere is the result, to a large degree, of the funclamental pioneering work of Herbert Parker.
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