After the March 2011 tsunami and nuclear disaster at Fukushima, Japan, Tim Jorgensen suddenly found himself on the receiving end of a lot of emails and phone calls. People were frightened. People had questions. Jorgensen, a Johns Hopkins-trained radiation biologist based at Georgetown University, spent a good amount of time explaining radiation and the risks from exposure to an international news media. Since then, he’s written a history of radiation, telling fascinating stories of research and discovery, exploring controversies and offering an objective look at radiation’s benefits and risks. "Strange Glow: The Story of Radiation" is published by Princeton University Press. Jorgensen lives in Maryland. He is associate professor of radiation medicine and director of Georgetown’s graduate program in health physics and radiation protection. In addition, he is an associate in epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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