Re: First Radiation Victim?

["J. J. Rozental" <joseroze@netvision.net.il>]

Title: First Radiation Victim?

 

Clarence Madison Dally, October,  blower at Thomas Edison's Menlo Park lab, is first person known to have been killed by x-ray exposure. Severely burned in 1896, he still works with x-rays until 1898. His death causes Edison to discontinue radiation work in his lab.

 

Make a Search only using his name Clarence Madison Dally and you will find dozens of sites relating about

 

Jose Julio Rozental

joseroze@netvision.net.il

Israel

----- Original Message -----

From: Greenstock, Clive

To: 'radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu'

Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 7:09 PM

Subject: First Radiation Victim?

For the history books, can anyone provide a medically verifiable answer
to the following question(preferably with reliable documented reference):- 

Who was the first reported person to die from exposure to ionizing radiation?

Clive Greenstock
AECL, Chalk River
greenstockc@aecl.ca