Lauriston taylor biography

Lauriston S. Taylor (1 June 1902 – 26 November 2004) was an American physicist known for his work in the field of radiation protection and measurement.
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Lauriston S. Taylor

Lauriston S. Taylor (1 June 1902 – 26 November 2004) was an American physicist known for his work in the field of radiation protection and measurement.^[2]

Career

He established standards for X-ray radiation exposure for the first time in the 1920s, which eventually led to a group of government organizations that set the standards over the next 50 years. Taylor remained active in debates about radiation exposure into his 80s, often advocating the viewpoint that small doses of radiation were not important.

Accolades

He served as president of the Health Physics Society (HPS) from 1958 to 1959. He was a recipient of the Medal of Freedom, and the Presidential Bronze Star (then the highest military award that could be given to a civilian).^[3]

Vignettes of early radiation workers

In 1977 the Food and Drug Administration of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services initiated a series of 25 recorded interviews with early radiation workers to provide an historical overview of their research and discoveries pr

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Lauriston Sale Taylor

Lauriston Taylor (1902 – 2004) was born in Brooklyn, USA on June 1, 1902, and graduated from Cornell University with a Degree in Physic is in 1926. He received honorary doctorates from University of Pennsylvania (1960) and St. Procopius College (1965).

Laurie (as he was called by friends and colleagues) started his career at the National Bureau of Standards (NBS), which is now known as National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and in 1951 he became chief of the Atomic and Radiation Physics Division. His research here focused on ionising radiation and radiological protection standards. Taylor developed the guarded field standard ionisation chamber and studied radiation measurement and protection, ionisation of liquids, and variable oscillators. After leaving the NBS, Taylor served the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), Washington, D.C., as Special Assistant to the President and Executive Director of the Academy’s Advisory Committee to the Office of Emergency Preparedness, where he remained until 1972. In addition to careers a

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Lauriston Taylor

Birthplace: Brooklyn, NY, USA
Associated organizations: National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements, National Bureau of Standards
Fields of study: X-rays
Awards: Bronze Star, Medal of Freedom

Biography

Lauriston S. Taylor was a radiation physicist and a pioneer in the field of radiation safety. Except for a period of time overseas during World War II, he lived in Bethesda from 1930 to 1990, when he moved to the retirement center.

Mr. Taylor joined the National Bureau of Standards in 1927 as the first federal employee to work in the rapidly growing area of X-ray applications in medicine and other sciences. His work led to the establishment of the first national standard for X-ray exposure. For the next seven decades, he studied the health effects of long-term exposure to low levels of radiation and other issues of radiation science.

He also was founder and for 48 years president of the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements.

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