Frederick P. Cowan

Frederick P. Cowan was an American health physicist and head of the Instrumentation and Health Physics Department at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Cowan grew up in the Boston, Massachusetts area. He attended Bowdoin College, then went on to Harvard University to complete his Ph.D. After Harvard, Cowan went on to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to teach. During World War II Dr. Cowan worked in radar countermeasures. This was followed by a stint at the Chrysler Corporation and finally he ended up at Brookhaven National Laboratory to lead the Health Physics Division.[1]

## Selected publications

* Health Physics and Medical Aspects of a Strontium 90 Inhalation Incident[2]
* Health Physics Program for the Brookhaven Cosmotron[3]
* Radiation Safety in a Research Laboratory[4]
* P32 Spill of April 23, 1957[5]
* Bioassay Data and Analysis Relating to the P32 Spill of April 23, 1957[6]
* A Preliminary Report on Health Physics Problems at the Brookhaven Alternating Gradient Synchrotron[7]
* Personnel Dosimetry of Very-High Energy Radiations[8]
* Some Dosimetry Problems of the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron (AGS)[9]
* Health Physics Program for the Brookhaven National Laboratory Synchrotrons[10]
* Health Physics Problems of High Energy Accelerators[11]
* Everyday radiation[12]

## References

1. ↑ "News of Science, Health Physics Society". Science 122 (3159): 112–7. 15 July 1955. doi:10.1126/science.122.3159.112. PMID 17751437.
2. ↑ Cowan, F. P.; L. B. Farabee; R. A. Love (1952). "Health Physics and Medical Aspects of a Strontium 90 Inhalation Incident". American Journal of Roentgenology and Radium Therapy 67 (5): 805–9. PMID 14914954.
3. ↑ Cowan, Frederick P.; J.S. Handloser (November 1953). "Health physics program for the Brookhaven cosmotron". BNL Report (BNL-264 CT-43).
4. ↑ Cowan, F. P. (1957). "Radiation Safety in a Research Laboratory". Upton, New York: Brookhaven National Laboratory.
5. ↑ Cowan, F. P. (7 June 1957). "P32 Spill of April 23, 1957". Memorandum to J. B. H. Kuper (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York): 85–87.
6. ↑ Cowan, F. P.; J. Weiss (7 June 1957). "Bioassay Data and Analysis Relating to the P32 Spill of April 23, 1957". Memorandum to R. A. Love (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York): 80–84.
7. ↑ Cowan, Frederick P. (1962). "A Preliminary Report On Health Physics Problems At The Brookhaven Alternating Gradient Synchrotron". BNL Report (BNL-6001).
8. ↑ Cowan, Frederick P. (1–5 April 1963). "Personnel Dosimetry of Very-High Energy Radiations". Madrid, Spain.
9. ↑ Cowan, Frederick; Leigh F. Phillips; Robert J. King (1 July 1963). "Some Dosimetry Problems of the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron (AGS)". BNL Report (BNL 7151).
10. ↑ Cowan, Frederick P. (1965). "Health Physics Program For The Brookhaven National Laboratory Synchrotrons". BNL Report (BNL-9650; CONF-651109-5).
11. ↑ Cowan, F. P. (18 May 1966). "Health Physics Problems of High Energy Accelerators". BNL Report (BNL-50005).
12. ↑ Cowan, Frederick P. (2009). "Everyday radiation". Physics Today 5 (10): 10–16. doi:10.1063/1.3067365.

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