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Saturday, February 1, 2014

Muller influenced the BEAR to adopt the Linear No Threshold (LNT) assumption in 1956


Muller influenced the BEAR to adopt the Linear No Threshold (LNT) assumption in 1956


Hermann Muller, the 1946 Nobel Prize winner in Physiology and Medicine, insisted that there was no threshold of risk from ionizing radiation. His opinion has had a long lasting influence on standards for radiation dose. He was wrong.

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