Other names J. Newell Stannard Name James Stannard Citizenship United States Died September 19, 2005 | Nationality American Fields Pharmacology, Physiology | |
Born January 2, 1910Owego, New York ( 1910-01-02 ) Institutions University of RochesterEmory UniversityNational Institutes of HealthUniversity of RochesterUniversity of CaliforniaSan Diego Thesis Rate Limiting Metabolic Processes in the Yeast (1934-1935) Books Radiation Protection and the Internal Emitter Saga Alma mater Oberlin College, Harvard University Institution University of Rochester, Emory University, National Institutes of Health, San Diego | ||
Doctoral advisor Dr. Theodore Stier | ||
James Newell Stannard (2 January 1910 – 19 September 2005), radiobiologist, Pharmacologist and Physiologist at the National Institutes of Health.
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Atomic Energy Project
The Atomic Energy Project at the University of Rochester was a graduate teaching program. The project had three divisions. William F. Bale headed the Radiology and Biophysics division that worked largely on radioactive materials—for example, radium, radon, plutonium, and polonium. Stannard was responsible for 2 sections, the Radiation Toxicology section and the Radioautography section. Harold Hodge headed the Pharmacology and Toxicology division that focused on Uranium including inhalation studies. Joe W. Howland, M.D. headed the clinically oriented Medical Services division. Herbert Mermagen worked in the Medical Physics section was a radiological physicist, known today as a health physicist.