Re: the term "health physics"

["Ron L. Kathren" <rkathren@beta.tricity.wsu.edu>]

Melissa --

See page 4 of Kathren and Ziemer, Health Physics -- A Backward Glance 
(Pergamon, 1980), for the answer to your question.  Basically, it grew 
out of a neeed for secrecy in the early Manhattan District days and the 
fact that the early group was largely composed of physicists working on 
health related problems.  

Ron Kathren

On Fri, 5 May 1995, Melissa Woo wrote:

> Well, as long as it's friday, and there are folks in a storytelling mood
> out there, would someone care to explain how the term "health physics" came
> about?  Thanks!
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