Suggested Reading

1 Cropper, William H., Great Physicists, Oxford University Press, Oxford (2001). [Portrays the lives, personalities,
and contributions of 29 scientists from Galileo to Stephen Hawkin.
2 Glasstone, S., Sourcebook on Atomic Energy, 3d ed., D. Van Nostrand, Princeton, NJ (1967).
3 Kathren, R. L., “Historical Development of Radiation Measurement and Protection,” pp. 13–52 in Handbook of
Radiation Protection and Measurement, Section A, Vol. I, A. B. Brodsky, ed., CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL (1978).
[An interesting and readable account of important discoveries and experience with radiation exposures, measurements,
and protection. Contains bibliography.]
4 Kathren, R. L., and Ziemer, P. L., eds., Health Physics: A Backward Glance, Pergamon Press, Elmsford,
NY (1980). [Thirteen original papers on the history of radiation protection.]
5 Meinhold, Charles B., “Lauriston S. Taylor Lecture: The Evolution of Radiation protection—from Erythema to Genetic Risks to Risks of Cancer ” Health Phys. 87, 241–248 (2004).
President Emeritus of the NCRP describes the evolution of radiation protection through the present-day ICRP,
NCRP, and other organizations. This issue (Vol. 87, No. 3) contains the proceedings of the 2003 annual meeting
of the NCRP, on the subject of radiation protection at the beginning of the 21st century.
6 Moeller, Dade W., “Environmental Health Physics—50 Years of Progress,” Health Phys. 87, 337–357 (2004). [Review article, discussing sources of environmental radiation and the transport and monitoring of radioactive materials in the biosphere. Extensive bibliography.]
7 Morgan, K. Z., “History of Damage and Protection from Ionizing Radiation,” Chapter 1 in Principles of Radiation Protection, K. Z. Morgan and J. E. Turner, eds., Wiley, New York (1967). [Morgan is one of the original eight health physicists of the Manhattan Project at the University of Chicago (1942) and the first president of the Health Physics Society.]
8 National Research Council, Health Effects of Exposures to Low Levels of Ionizing Radiation—BEIR V, National
Academy Press, Washington, DC (1990).
9 NCRP Report No. 93, Ionizing Radiation Exposure of the Population of the United States, National Council on Radiation
Protection and Measurements, Bethesda, MD (1987).
10 Pais, Abraham, Inward Bound, Oxford University Press, Oxford (1986). [Subtitled Of Matter and Forces in the
Physical World, this is a very readable account of what happened between 1895 and 1983 and the persons and
personalities that played a role during that time.]
11 Physics Today, Vol. 34, No. 11 (Nov. 1981). [Fiftieth anniversary of the American Institute of Physics. Special
issue devoted to “50 Years of Physics in America.”]
12 Physics Today, Vol. 36, No. 7 (July 1983). [This issue features articles on physics in medicine to commemorate
the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine.]
13 Ryan, Michael T., “Happy 100th Birthday to Dr. Lauriston S. Taylor,” Health Phys. 82, 773 (2002). [The many contributions of Taylor (1902–2004), the first President of the NCRP, are honored in this issue (Vol. 82, No. 6) of
the journal.]
14 Segrè, Emilio, From X-Rays to Quarks, W. H. Freeman, San Francisco (1980).
[Describes physicists and their discoveries from 1895 to the present. Segrè received the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the antiproton.]
15 Stannard, J. N., Radioactivity and Health, National Technical Information Service, Springfield, VA (1988).
[A comprehensive, detailed history (1963 pp.) of the age.]
16 Taylor, L. S., Radiation Protection Standards, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL (1971). [The history of radiation protection
as written by one of its leading international participants.]
17 Taylor, L. S., “Who Is the Father of Health Physics?” Health Phys. 42, 91 (1982).
18 United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation, UNSCEAR 2000 Report to the General
Assembly, with scientific annexes, Vol. I Sources, Vol. II Effects, United Nations Publications, New York, NY and
Geneva, Switzerland (2000).
19 Weart, Spencer R. and Phillips, Melba, Eds., History of Physics, American Institute of Physics, New York, NY
(1985). [Forty-seven articles of historical significance are reprinted from Physics Today. Included are personal
accounts of scientific discoveries and developments in modern physics. One section, devoted to social issues
in physics, deals with effects of the great depression in the 1930s, science and secrecy, development of the
atomic bomb in World War II, federal funding, women in physics, and other subjects.
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