Re: Charlie Willis

[Muckerheide <muckerheide@mediaone.net>]

   While not the last time I saw Charlie Willis, the most memorable was
at the March 1996 meeting of the ACNW/ACRS Subcommittee on the subject
of Low Level Radiation Health Effects. After our formal presentations,
Charlie appeared to speak, participating as a representative the Health
Physics Society to report on the recently issued HPS Position Statement
on Radiation Risk. 

   At the end of that commentary he stated, as reported in the
transcript: 

   "...it's clear to many of us that we are not seeing the predicted ill
effects at low doses, as has been pointed out to you.
   "I personally came to this hormesis observation fairly late in the
game.  It wasn't until 1958 that I was working with the laboratory [Ed.
Oak Ridge] situation where we were doing experiments with below
background levels of radiation, taking the potassium-40 out and seeing
what the effects would be on the cellular level when we saw that the
cells looked good but they didn't function.  So we couldn't publish the
results, another ill effect of the paradigm about the linear
hypothesis."

   I had been extracting this quote from the transcript in anticipation
of the March 1999 meeting of the ACNW on the draft NCRP SC1-6 report
when we received the first message that Charlie had passed away. I'd
like to think that there's a 'message' in that...

Regards, Jim Muckerheide
Radiation, Science, and Health
muckerheide@mediaone.net
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Franz Schoenhofer wrote:
> 
> J.J. Rozenthal wrote:
> 
> >>-------------------------------------------------------
> >There are so many messages in this list that it  is very difficult to read
> >all of them. I,  for instance,  select only the one that is of  my interest
> >of learning and or to comment. However, there are  members that  when write
> >or comment,  any subject, all the listeners  read they messages, probably we
> >can call them 100% audience. I never meet Charley Willis, however I always
> >read his  messages, and I learnt a lot; my respect to him, and condolences
> >to his family.
> >
> >J. J. Rozental
> ................................
> 
> May I add that I do keep RADSAFE contributions on my disk, which I think
> are essential, which are interested and which I think are worth to be read
> a second time.
> 
> I have never met Charlie Willis either, but my respect may be demonstrated
> by the fact that I still have 16 of his messages on my computer.
> 
> Franz
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