Title: George Warlick Health Physics Papers

Date/Date Range :   1940s-1950

Extent: 0.5 linear feet

Abstract:

This collection contains publications, correspondence, and bulletins about health physics and radiation safety methods at Clinton Laboratories and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Call number: MS-2821

Repository: University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN

Aquisition Information:

Collection was donated to UT Special Collections in October 1989 and June 2006.

Access Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Copyright:

The copyright interests in this collection remain with the creator. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library.

Preferred Citation:

[Identification of Item], George Warlick Health Physics Papers, MS-2821. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.

Collection consists of five folders.

George Warlick, of Kingston, TN, worked at the Oak Ridge National Laboratories (ORNL) Health Physics Division in the production of documents in the late 1940s. He worked with Karl Z. Morgan and helped develop the colors of the Radiation Warning Sign.

The "father of health physics" (the study of the risks of ionizing radiation to people and the environment), Karl Z. Morgan (1908-1999), studied physics at the University of North Carolina and Duke, earning his Ph.D. in 1934. He chaired the Physics Department at Lenoir Rhyne College until 1943, when he joined the Metallurgical Laboratory of the University of Chicago. Transferring to Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 1944, he became Director of the Health Physics Division, leading studies on the detection of ionizing radiation. Dr. Morgan was founder of the Health Physics Society and the International Radiation Protection Association, edited Health Physics Journal and coauthored the first textbook on health physics, and became an authority on the safe limits for radionuclides in the human body. After retiring in 1972, he continued his work as a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

This collection contains publications, correspondence, and bulletins about health physics and radiation safety methods at Clinton Laboratories and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Many of the publications are written by Karl Z. Morgan, Director of the ORNL Health Physics Division.

See also MS 2504: The J. C. Hart Paper on Karl Morgan, Religion, and Science, ca. 1967; MS-2020: J. Newell Stannard Collected Publications; and MS-2066: Ronald L. Kathren Collection.

• Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
• Health physics.
• Morgan, K. Z. (Karl Ziegler), 1908-1999.
• Radiation -- Safety measures.
• Ionizing radiation -- Safety measures.