Parker, Herbert M.
Herbert M. Parker papers, 1938-1984.
The bulk of the materials are from the period 1966 to 1982 and consist of correspondence, speeches and writings, and committee records of Herbert Parker. The collection is organized according to the various committees and boards Parker chaired or served on primarily in the areas of reactor and radiation safety, and radioactive waste, including committees of the Atomic Energy Commission, National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (Three Mile Island Special Inquiry Group). There is also correspondence related to Parker's research at the Battelle Institute.
Physicist (medical and health physics, radiation), co-inventor of the Patterson-Parker radium therapy method. M.S., physics (University of Manchester, 1931). Staff, Metallurgical Laboratories of the University of Chicago (1942-1944), Hanford Laboratories from (1944-1965), consultant to Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratories (1965-1971), and president of HMP Associates (1971- ).
Parker, Herbert M.
Battelle Memorial Institute -- Research.
National Research Council (U.S.)
Nuclear power plants -- Pennsylania -- Three Mile Island -- Accident investigation.
Nuclear reactors -- Safety measures.
Radiation -- Safety measures.
Radioactive wastes.
Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant (Pa.) -- Accidents -- Investigation.
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.
United States. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Three Mile Island Special Inquiry Group.
AIP-ICOS
University of Washington. University Archives. Box 352900. Seattle, WA 98195, USA