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Dr. CuampBertain. Thank you, Mr. Price. _
Representative Price. The next witness will be Dr. Herbert Parker,
manager of the Hanford Laboratories.
STATEMENT OF HERBERT M. PARKER,’ MANAGER, HANFORD
LABORATORIES, GENERAL ELECTRIC CO.
Mr. Parser. Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, the
material I am reporting was assembled by a number of my associates
whose help I would lke to acknowledge. Perhaps my submitted
paper will be acceptable for the published record and I will try to
condenseit here.
In the hearings on radiation protection criteria and standards conducted by the Joint Committee, Dr. Failla, whose loss its being keenly
felt by all of us in the field, mace some observations entitled “Giving
Credit Where Credit Is Due,” in which he congratulated the Joint
Committee on the excellence of the hearings on radiation protection.
It is a privilege to contribute to the present hearings to bring these
matters uptodate. Dr. Failla’s testimony also emphasized the 1mportance of the recommendations of the NCRP and the ICRP, many
others at that time noted that the basis for most of the standards used
for the protection of both individuals and populations at that time
were recommendaions of these two bodies. Thesituation is essentially
unchanged today. Important activities in detailed formulation of
standards and regulations continue in manyother bodies, AEC, FRC,
some of the States, Public Health Service, American Standards Association, and others, but the bases for these standardsare still predominantly the recommendations of the NCRP.
2 Herbert M. Parker. manager, Hanford Laboratories, Hanford Atomic Products Operation, Richland, Wash.
Place of birth: Accrington, England. Date of birth: April 138,
1910. Naturalized in the State of Washington, 1946. Marital status: Married. Education ; Manchester University (England) ; B.S., physics, 1930; M.8., physics, 1931 ; fellow,
Institute of Physics, 1937.
Assistant professor radiology, University of Washington, 1952 to date; honorary trustee,
Northwest Seientific Association (past); technical adviser, U.S. Delegation, Peaceful Uses
of Atomic Energy, Geneva, 1955; Janeway lecturer, 1955; qualified in radiological physics
by the American Board of Radiology.: qualified in health physics by the American Board
of Health Physics.
Work history: 1932 to 1938, Holt Radium Institute, Manchester, England,
physicist ;
1938 to 1942, Tumor Institute, Swedish Hospital, Seattle, Wash., physicist : 1942 to 1943,
Metallurgical Laboratory, University of
Chicago, research associate; 1948 to 1944,
Clinton Laboratories, Oak Ridge, Tenn., section head, bealth physics: 1944 to 1946,
B. Ef. duPont Co., Richland, Wash., manager, health physics: 1946 to 1948, General Electric Co., Richland, Wash., assistant superintendent, medical department (in charge of
radiation protection) ;: 1948 to 1951. General Electric Co., Richland, Wasb., superintendent,
health instruments; 1951 to 1956, General Blectrie Co.,
Richland, Wash., director,
radiological sciences: 1956 to present, General Electric Co., Richland, Wash., manager,
Hanford Laboratories.
Professional societies: Fellow, American Nuclear Society; fellow, American Physical
Society: associate fellow, American College of Radiology: fellow, Institute of Physics
(Great Britain) ; fellow, AAAS, associate member, Radiological Society of North America:
American Radium Soctety; Radiation Research Society: Atomic Industrial Forum; N.Y.
Academy of Seiences; honorary member, faculty of radiologists, Great Britain; American
Management Association; member, British Institute of Radiology; member, Society of
Nuelear Medicine,
Committee memberships: Member, Committee on Units, Standards and Protection,
American College of Radiology; International Commission on Radiological Protection,
Chairman. Subcommittee on Isotopes and Waste Disposal (past); National Research
Conncil, member, Subcommittee on Radioblology (past) : Subcommittee on Radiological
Instruments {past); National Academy of Sciences, member, Committee on Waste Disposal (biological effects of radiation study) (past) ; chairman, Technical Advisory Panel 04
of the American Institute of Physics to the National Bureau of Standards; member, General Electric Reactor Safeguards Council (past) ; member, Executive Committee. NCRP ;
chairman, Subcommittee on Basic Radiation Protection Criteria: member, Subcommittee
on Permissible Dose From Bxternal Sources (past) : member, Subcommittee on Permissible
Internal Dose (past): member, AEC Safety and Industrial Health Advisory Board (past):
member, Committee on Radiation Protection Standards, Atomic Industrial Forum (past) ;
member, Washington State Technical Advisory Board on Radiation Control.
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