Taylor, Lauriston S. (Lauriston Sale), 1902-2004
Lauriston S. Taylor papers, 1904-1999 (bulk 1928-1989).
The Lauriston Sale Taylor papers document his career as radiation physicist, lecturer, consultant, and administrator of national and international radiological protection organizations. The bulk of the papers contain meeting minutes, drafts, correspondence, reports, and administrative records from Taylors tenure as President of the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (1929-1977) and as a member of both the International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements and the International Commission on Radiological Protection. Papers also include correspondence, drafts, lectures, speeches, photographs, audiovisual materials, newspaper clippings, court transcripts, articles, and writings that address various topics in radiation protection, including civil defense and the maximum dose of radiation an individual can receive, also known as the maximum permissible dose. Other items and topics include National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements, the International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements, International Commission on Radiological Protection, Congressional hearings, radiation protection history and radioactive waste storage, Taylors unpublished autobiography, correspondence with members of Congress and colleagues Edith Quimby and Shields Warren, videotapes containing interviews conducted by Taylor for the Bureau of Radiological Health series, Vignettes of Early Radiation Workers,photographs of Taylor with colleagues and family, and photos and lantern slides of radiology-related instruments, including the guarded field ionization chamber.
Taylor (Pennsylvania, D.Sc. 1960), American physicist, served on the Internatonal Commission on Radiological Units (ICRU), International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP), and National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP). He developed the guarded field standard ionization chamber; studied radiation measurement and protection, ionization of liquids, and variable oscilators.
Taylor, Lauriston S. (Lauriston Sale), 1902-2004
Federal Radiation Council (U.S.)
International Commission on Radiological Units and Measurements.
International Commission on Radiological Protection.
National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements.
Radiation -- Measurement
Radiation -- Physiological effect.
Radiation dosimetry.
Physicists.
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