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Biographies of Contributors
Pages 599-606

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... LYNN ANSPAUGH, Ph.D., is the Division Leader for Environmental Sciences at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Livermore, CA 944501. Since 1963, he has been with the Biomedical and Environmental Research Program at LLNL and has performed research in the areas of aeolian resuspension of toxic materials, radiation-dose-model development, and risk assessment.
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... . Academician Bochkov was a member of the steering committee for the World Health Organization's study of the effects of nuclear war and co-author of the 1984 WHO report Effects of Nuclear War on Health and Health Services.
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... TED F HARVEY, Ph.D., is currently a member of the Atmospheric and Geophysical Sciences Division of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Livermore, CA 945551.
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... ALEXANDER LEAF, M.D., is Ridley Watts Professor of Preventive Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Chairman of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology at Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston, MA 021141. He was a member of the steering committee for the World Health Organization's study of the effects of nuclear war and co-author of the 1984 WHO report Elects of Nuclear War on Health and Health Services.
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... PER OFTEDAL, Ph.D., holds a chair in General Genetics at the University of Oslo. He has worked and published extensively in the field of radiation genetics and contributed background papers on cancer and genetic aspects to the 1984 World Health Organization report Effects of Nuclear War on Health and Health Services.
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... Formerly, he studied radiation effects for 10 years at IBM. He currently is a consultant on fallout to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
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... FRANK VON HIPPEL, Ph.D., is a Professor at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and a senior research scientist at the University's Center for Energy and Environmental Studies (Princeton, NJ 085401. He earned a D.Phil.
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