History of Radiation Protection
Examining the IAEA’s role in the History of Radiation Protection (HRP-IAEA) turns our attention to the history of nuclear diplomacy as a means for understanding how our scientific knowledge about radiation protection has been shaped by diplomatic, social, economic, and political concerns. The main actor is the International Atomic Energy Agency, and the focus is on its role in shaping radiation standards throughout the Cold War. Our research marks a diplomatic turn in the history of science. HRP-IAEA is a Horizon 2020 funded European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant project led by Prof. Dr. Maria Rentetzi and hosted by Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.
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Funding source: EU - 8. Rahmenprogramm - Horizon 2020
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This project addresses the central question of how the International Atomic Energy Agency, a diplomatic and political international organization, came to dominate scientific institutions with a long tradition in radiation protection. Despite the importance of international organizations for the development of postwar science there is no work on the history of radiation protection in relation to the development of the IAEA. The project addresses this lacuna in scholarship in a groundbreaking way…
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Setting Radiation Protection Standards: The First Radiology Congress in 1925
In: Medical Research Archives 12 (2024), p. 1-7
ISSN: 2375-1916
DOI: 10.18103/mra.v12i6.5445
URL: https://esmed.org/MRA/mra/article/view/5445