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The 105th meeting of the Advisory Committee for Biology and Medicine
to the Atomic Energy Commission was called to order in Room E-401, AEC
Headquarters, Germantown, Maryland, at 9:00 A.M., September 24,
1964.
Committee members Bale, Cohen, Green, Hodges, Russell and Sterner
were in attendance; Dr. Moore participated in the meeting on September 25;
Dr. Loeb, member, and Dr, Patt, Scientific Secretary, were unable to
attend.
Also present were Dr. C. L. Dunham, Director, Division of Biology
and Medicine, and various members of the DBM and representatives of other
AEC Divisions. Dr. Paul Tompkins and Mr, Claire Palmiter, of the Federal
Radiation Council, also attended.
Dr. Dunham's presentation of general interest items noted several
changes in the composition of the staff of the Division of Biology and
Medicine, notably the impending departure of James Liverman, who has been
appointed Associate Director of the Biology Division at Oak Ridge National
Laboratory and the appointment of Dr. John Kirby-Smith to replace
Dr. Liverman in the Biology Branch; the acquisition of Dr. Martin Minthorn
from the University of Tennessee as biochemist to tne DBM staff, and the
temporary detachment of Dr. William Burr for four months' internsnip at
the Washington Hospital Center.
Dr. Dunham also announced tne resignation
of General A. R. Luedecke as General Manager of AEC and the appointment of
Mr. R. E. Hollingsworth, formerly Deputy Manager, as General Manager.
Dr. Anton Lang, plant physiologist,
from California Institute of
Technology, nas been made director of the Micnigan State University Plant
Research Laboratory.
The Committee was briefed concerning the present situation and
activities of the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission in Japan, recently
visited by Dr. Dunham.
The revised amortization agreement between the Division and Michigan
State University was outlined for the committee, and the initial meeting
of the National Research Council Radiation Effects Committee advisory to
the Federal Radiation Council, was described by Dr. Dunham.
It was reported chat among those who were on the Island of Rongelap
March 1, 1954 and exposed to approximately 175r of external radiation over
a period of forty-eight hours and to approximately 150r additional radiation
to the thyroia gland from ingested radioactive iodine, two children have
been found to have papillary carcinoma of the thyroid.
Thyroidectomies
have been performed on both children.
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