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PEOPLE
It is now Dr. Paul Gailey. Gailey, who helps manage the
NIEHS-DOE RAPID program at the Oak Ridge National Labs
in Oak Ridge, TN, has received his doctorate from the University
of Utah in Salt Lake City, working with Dr. Om Gandhi.
His dissertation was on the theoretical minimum detection limits
for human cells exposed to environmental magnetic fields.
“The results indicate that magnetic field strengths of less than
100 mG can produce membrane potentials exceeding thermal
noise in some cases,” Gailey said, pointing out that his results
are substantially different from the early predictions by
Dr. Robert Adair and others....Dr. Keith Florig has left Resources
for the Future in Washington to return to Carnegie
Mellon University’s (CMU) Department of Engineering and
Public Policy in Pittsburgh as a research engineer. He is now
working on the California EMF–School Policy Project (see
MWN, J/F96), among other risk analysis issues. Florig received
his doctorate from CMU in 1986; his thesis advisor was Dr.
Granger Morgan....Fred Dietrich of Electric Research and
Management in Pittsburgh has been elected a fellow of the
IEEE for “contributions to the development of instrumentation
and techniques for the measurement of EMFs.”...AT&T
is splitting up into three companies, and Ron Petersen has a
new institutional home—if in name only. The systems and
technology business units, including Bell Laboratories, are no
longer part of AT&T and are now called Lucent Technologies
Inc. “I will continue to do what I have been doing for the
last 25 years,” said Petersen. Lucent is headquartered in Murray
Hill, NJ....Dr. Thomas Budinger of the Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratory in Berkeley, CA, has been elected
to the National Academy of Engineering in Washington for
“contributions in quantitative medical imaging and safety of
space exploration and experimentation.”...In the listing of
recent EPRI reports in our last issue, Kyle King was identified
as being with GE in Lenox, MA. In fact, King left GE in
1994 to join Enertech Consultants’ Lee, MA, office.
POLICE RADAR
Officer Wins Settlement...The Virginia Workers’ Compensation
Commission has found that a police officer’s testicular
cancer was caused by his use of a hand-held traffic radar unit.
The commission ruled last November 14 that Franklin Chappell
of the Portsmouth, VA, police force had proven “to a reasonable
degree of medical certainty” that his disease was caused
by exposure to radar—but it rejected his claim on the grounds
that it had been filed too late. However, rather than fight Chappell
through the appeals process, the city agreed to pay the
portion of his hospital bill not covered by insurance and to
restore his used-up sick leave. Chappell was diagnosed with testicular
cancer in January 1993. He underwent chemotherapy
and had his right testicle removed. He has been in remission
since 1994. His urologist and oncologist both testified that
his cancer was a direct result of radar exposure, and even the
city’s doctor called his exposure “bothersome.” Chappell told
Microwave News that he routinely left the unit—which was
always turned on—in his lap, because the bracket that was sup-
MICROWAVE NEWS March/April 1996