Gilbert Beebe papers

Collection

Identifier: HMD MS ACC 2004-016

Abstract

UNPROCESSED COLLECTION. Correspondence, governmental reports (published and unpublished), computer diskettes (5.25"). NP-9925 Volume I and II "Nagasaki atomic bomb damage"; NP-9923 Volume I "Physical damage Hiroshima Japan". Engineering reports, photos, elevation maps describing physical damage and human casualty caused by atomic bombs.

Dates

Creation: 1940s

Extent

24 Linear Feet (21 boxes)

Creator

Beebe, Gilbert W. (Gilbert Wheeler), 1912-2003 (Person)

Physical Location

Materials stored offsite. Retrievals made last Friday of the month. Contact reesj@nlm.nih.gov for scheduling.

Language of Materials

Collection materials primarily in English

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Biographical/Historical Note

Gilbert Wheeler Beebe, 1912-2003 was a radiation epidemiologist/statistician. He specialized in the study of radiation effects in the aftermath of the Chernobyl, USSR nuclear accident and of Hiroshima, Japan. First worked at the National Committee on Maternal Health, where he conducted an important study of contraceptive services in economically depressed areas. From there he went to the office of the Surgeon General of the Army, and then to the National Academy of Sciences. He worked with Seymour Jablon to organize the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission (ABCC) research program to study the late health effects of radiation exposure in Japanese A-bomb survivors. Later known as the Life Span Study. In 1977 began his fifth career at the National Cancer Institute, where he worked for 25 years. After the Chernobyl accident, Gil led international studies of thyroid cancer and leukemia among radiation-exposed populations in Belarus and Ukraine.

Collection Summary

Correspondence, governmental reports (published and unpublished), computer diskettes (5.25"). NP-9925 Volume I and II "Nagasaki atomic bomb damage"; NP-9923 Volume I "Physical damage Hiroshima Japan". Engineering reports, photos, elevation maps describing physical damage and human casualty caused by atomic bombs.