[fessenheim-fr] FWD: Ernest Sternglass, physicist, humanitarian, activist, dies at 91

[Klaus Schramm]

Professor Ernest Sternglass, Strahlenphysiker, ist im Alter von 91 
Jahren gestorben.
...ein hochverdienter Experte
und Warner vor der Atomenergie, der vor allem in den 1970ern mehrfach in 
der Region Baden-Elsass war zu Vorträgen und als Gutachter der
Badisch-Elsässischen Bürgerinitiativen; u.a. Buch über radioaktive
Niedrigstrahlung (D, 1977), weiterhin sehr aktuell...

http://www.beyondnuclear.org/home/2015/2/13/dr-ernest-sternglass-scientist-humanitarian-activist-public.html

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Dr. Ernest Sternglass, scientist, humanitarian, activist, public health
investigator and so much more Dr. Ernest Sternglass, 91, Emeritus 
Professor of Radiological Physics at the University of Pittsburgh School 
of Medicine, passed away in Ithaca, NY on February 12, 2015. He was a 
prominent, published scientist and anti-nuclear activist, whose early 
warnings about the health effects of low-level radiation from global 
nuclear weapons fallout contributed to the passage of the Atmospheric 
Test Ban Treaty in 1963. Dr. Sternglass would go on to focus
on the public health threat from routine and accidental radiological
releases from nuclear power plants.

During the Three Mile Island meltdown disaster in late March and early
April, 1979 -- as hundreds of thousands spontaneously evacuated (PA Gov.
Thornburgh merely advised that pregnant women and small children
"voluntarily" evacuate, advice he issued days after the disaster had 
begun, and after the worst radiation releases had already occurred) -- 
Dr. Sternglass rushed into the area, with radiation monitoring 
equipment, in hopes of shedding light on the crisis, and providing 
vitally needed information to the public. So too did Dr. Judith 
Johnsrud, a founding Beyond Nuclear board member, who passed on in 2014.

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VG Ingo.