Strauss: Concertos

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Radiation Health Effects Researchers, Alexander Catsch, Karl Zimmer, Hans-Joachim Born, Hermann Joseph Muller, Joseph Rotblat, John Gofman, Ernest J. Sternglass, David A. Schauer, Edward B. Lewis, Alice Stewart, Christopher Busby, Joseph Gilbert Hamilton, Yury Bandazhevsky, Edward Martell, Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute, Louis Harold Gray, Rainer Kurt Sachs, Commission for Independent Research and Information on Radioactivity, Alexander Hollaender, Eugene Saenger. Excerpt: Alexander Catsch (Katsch) (1913 1976 in Karlsruhe) was a German-Russian medical doctor and radiation biologist. Up to the end of World War II, he worked in Nikolaj Vladimirovich Timefeev-Resovskijs Abteilung für Experimentelle Genetik at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Hirnforschung (KWIH, Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Brain Research). He was taken prisoner by the Russians at the close of World War II. Initially, he worked in Nikolaus Riehls group at Plant No. 12 in Ehlektrostal, but at the end of 1947 was sent to work in Sungul' at a sharshka known under the cover name Obekt 0211. At the Sungul' facility, he again worked in biological research department under the direction of Timofeev-Resovskij. When Catsch returned to Germany in the mid-1950s, he fled to the West. He worked at the Biophysikalische Abteilung des Heiligenberg-Instituts and then at the Institut für Strahlenbiologie am Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe. While in Karlsruhe, he was also appointed, in 1962, to the newly created Lehrstuhl für Strahlenbiologie, at the Technische Hochschule Karlsruhe. In West Germany, he developed methods to extract radionucleotides from various organs. Catsch was half-German and half-Russian. Catsch was trained as a medical doctor. As early as 1938, Catsch cited his... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=15098913