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Biographical Sketches
Pages 495-496

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... Honors include the Allan Award of the American Society of Human Genetics, the Lasker Award of the American Public Health Association, the Presidential Medal of Science, and the Medal of the Smithsonian Institution. His association with the investigations reported in this book began in 1946, when he went to Japan as a member of a Overman team charged to advise the National Academy on the feasibility of studies on the delayed effects of atomic bombs.
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... National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements, and a consultant to the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation.
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