Internet, alt.obituaries, 2004-12-04
Information trouvée : décès 2004 : Lauriston S. Taylor, who helped to establish the first national standard
for X-ray exposure in the 1920's and led a series of government and independent organizations
over the next 50 years that set radiation exposure standards for workers and the public,
died on Nov. 26 in Mitchellville, Md. He was 102. Dr. Taylor's career in radiation
science covered most of the nuclear age. He joined the National Bureau of Standards
in 1927. He retired in 1977 as the president of the National Council on Radiation
Protection and Measurements, which sets the standards used by government agencies
and industry. Dr. Taylor was born in Brooklyn, on June 1, 1902,