Obituary-Karl Z. Morgan

["JOHN SCOTT"<scottjw@songs.sce.com>]

a few days late, but here is the obit which documents more of Dr.Morgan's 
contributions.

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Pioneer health physicist Karl Morgan dead at 91 
Copyright c 1999 Nando Media
Copyright c 1999 Associated Press
     
OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (June 10, 1999 11:38 a.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com) - 
Pioneering health physicist Dr. Karl Z. Morgan, who helped set global standards 
for radiation exposure, is dead at age 91. 
     
Morgan, who became an outspoken critic of the misuse of atomic energy, died 
Tuesday of an apparent aortic aneurysm. 
     
Morgan was an early member of the top-secret "Manhattan Project" that developed 
the first atomic bomb in World War II. 
     
In 1943, he was transferred from the University of Chicago to rural Tennessee 
where he worked at what would become Oak Ridge National Laboratory on the 
development of the bomb dropped over Hiroshima. 
     
He remained health physics director at the lab for nearly three decades. 
     
Morgan was instrumental in obtaining a federal law in 1968 to require the 
medical profession to control excessive doses of radiation during X-rays. 
     
He also testified in key radiation cases, including the lawsuit brought by the 
family of nuclear whistleblower Karen Silkwood, who died in 1974. 
     
A native of Kannapolis, N.C., Morgan received his bachelor's and master's 
degrees from the University of North Carolina and his doctorate from Duke 
University. 
     
He was the first president of the Health Physics Society, editor and chief of 
the Health Physics Journal for two decades, and founder and president of the 
International Radiation Protection Association. 
     
He also was chairman for 20 years of the Internal Dose Committee of the 
International Commission on Radiological Protection, which sets radiation 
standards for all countries. 
     
Morgan authored more than 400 articles on radiological health protection during 
his career. 
     
Testifying before the President's Advisory Committee on Human Radiation 
Experiments in 1995, Morgan said the investigation was long overdue. "In our 
country, a democracy, we don't tolerate humans as guinea pigs," he said. 
     
"He was an amazing man," said Wichita, Kan., lawyer Ken Peterson, who 
co-authored Morgan's recently published autobiography, "The Angry Genie: One 
Man's Walk Through The Nuclear Age." 
     
"He had such a unique view because he started the whole thing, basically," 
Peterson said of radiation health physics. 
     
Morgan is survived by his wife, Helen Lee Morgan, a sister, two sons and two 
daughters. Services were scheduled for Thursday at Holy Communion Lutheran 
Church in Banner Elk, N.C.

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