Winner of the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize to Speak at OSU Research Week (February 19-23, 2007)
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Abel Julio González
For over two decades, González was director of Radiation Safety at the International Atomic Energy Agency, the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog. As a senior officer, he shared the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the Agency in 2005 for their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is used in the safest possible way.
González is an expert in the field of radiation protection, i.e. protecting people and their habitat against the detrimental effects of ionizing radiation and safety and security of radiation sources. He is a member of the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation, an apolitical technical body reporting to the United Nations General Assembly, which estimates the global levels and effects of exposure to ionizing radiation.
He is Commissioner of the International Commission on Radiological Protection, a non-profit academic charity founded in 1928 by the International Congress of Radiology, which issues global recommendations on radiological protection; Vice-President of the International Radiation
Protection Association, which assembles and represents the radiation protection professionals around the world; and a member of the IAEA’s Commission of Safety Standards, which is charged with establishing international standards on nuclear, radiation, waste and transport safety.
González will give a technical lecture, “2006 Scientific Progress in Radiation Protection: Protecting People and Their Habitat Against Atomic Radiation,” on Friday, February 23 at 2:00 pm in Room 106, Noble Research Center.
González will speak about United Nations estimates on the health effects of radiation exposure from a report by the United Nations Committee on the Effect of Atomic Radiation; the latest recommendations on radiation protection from the International Commission on Radiological Protection; developments in the protection of patients in radio-diagnosis and radio-therapy and outcomes from recent international conferences; an international assessment of the effects of the Chernobyl accident with results from the Chernobyl Forum; and protection against a terrorist attack with radioactive substances which includes current ICRP recommendations on terrorism.
More activities scheduled during Research Week are available online at www.researchweek.okstate.edu. For more information, contact Darla Duncan, Office of the VP for Research and Technology Transfer, 405-744-6370 or email darla.duncan@okstate.edu.