Sigma Xi Lecture – Heresy, Excommunication and Other Weeds in the Garden of Science
Theodore Rockwell
Thursday, 02 Oct 2003 at 8:00 pm – Campanile Room, Memorial Union
Theodore Rockwell has been directly involved in nuclear power for nearly 60 years, starting in an elite Process Improvement Task Force at the war-time atomic bomb project at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. After the war he transferred to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and became Head of the Radiation Shield Engineering Group.He is a member of the Health Physics Society, a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society and a vice president and a founding director of Radiation, Science & Health, Inc., an international non-profit organization of independent radiation experts committed to bringing radiation policy into line with the best scientific data and theory.
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