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(01/14/1924 -- 03/06/2009)
Dr Herman Cember was in the second AEC
fellowship class and was a student of Elda Anderson at Oak Ridge. He
went on to work at the University of Pittsburgh in the School of Public
Health. The health physics classes he taught were the first ones not
subsidized by direct government support. He went on to teach at
the
University of Cincinnati in Ohio in the School of medicine. Dr Cember
left for Northwestern University to teach health physics in the School
of Engineering. In 1995 he retired from Northwestern University, and
accepted a position at Purdue University. He has served on numerous
national and international committees, including working for the United
Nations at the ILO. Dr. Cember has
recieved multiple awards for teaching and research in his career and
consulted to multiple government agencies.
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Dr. Thomas
Johnson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental
and Radiological Health Sciences at Colorado State University. His
research efforts are on uranium mining, acute effects of ionizing
radiation, the effect of lasers on the skin and cornea and laser safety
standards. Prior to attaining his current position, he was an Assistant
Professor and Post Doctoral Fellow at the Uniformed Services
University. He holds a BS from Southern Illinois University, an MBA
from the University of Illinois, an MS in Environmental Engineering
from Northwestern University and PhD in Health Physics from Purdue
University. He has worked in consulting, electric generating plants,
and hospitals. He was a nuclear power plant operator on the fast attack
submarine USS Cavalla. He also served as a reservist in the USAF.
Additionally, he is a Certified Health Physicist, Certified Laser
Safety Officer and Registered Radiation Protection Technologist.
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