MEETING WITH
ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION
ADVISORY COMMITTEE
ON
BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE
AT
NATIONAL BUREAU OF STANDARDS
JANUARY 9, 1953
12:00
1:15
Iuncheon at Tilden Gardens
Assemble in Lecture Room, Materials Testing Laboratory.
Greeting and opening remarks by Dr. A. V. Astin, Director,
National Bureau of Standards.
1.
Remarks about General Program of
Radiation Physics Laboratory
L. S. Taylor, Chief
Atomic and Radiation
Physics Division
General program of laboratory and reference to the more complete
outline of April 1952, Work of the National Committee on Radiation Protection, New facilities being added: Betatron Laboratory
Annex, Radioactivity Building, Penthouse on High Voltage Labora-
tory, Radioisotope Handling Laboratories in Materials Testing
Laboratory.
programs,
Relationship of AEC supported programs with other
Radiation Data (AEC Project 2958)
and (Penetration and Diffusion of
High Energy Radiations)
U, Fano, Chief
Nuclear Physics Section
The whole activity of this section constitutes actually a single
large project, whose cost amounts to roughly 120,000 dollars in
this fiscal year, Its objective is to strive towards comprehensive,
detailed and continued theoretical treatment of the project of high
energy radiation through matter and of its successive transformetions, Only a minor portion of the necessary basic knowledge is
available; ites analysis, evaluation, and dissemination constitutes
by itself a major task, The evaluation and dissemination actually
is supported by the Biology and Medicine programs to the extent
of $21,000 (Project 2958, Radiation Data).
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Approximately 10 minutes will be taken at each of the discussions
or stops indicated.