James Newell Stannard

James Newell Stannard (2 January 1910 – 19 September 2005), radiobiologist, Pharmacologist and Physiologist at the National Institutes of Health.[1][2]

James Newell Stannard
James Newell Stannard
Born(1910-01-02)January 2, 1910
Owego, New York
DiedSeptember 19, 2005(2005-09-19) (aged 95)
San Diego, California
NationalityAmerican
Other namesJ. Newell Stannard
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma materOberlin College
AB 1931
Harvard University
MA 1934
Harvard University
Ph.D. 1935
Known forUniversity of Rochester
Atomic Energy Project
Spouse(s)Grace L. Kingsley
1911-1991
Helena R. Woodhouse
1994-2005
ChildrenSusan L. (Stannard) Frazier
1942-
AwardsHealth Physics Society
Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award
Founders Award
Fellow Award
J. Newell Stannard Lecture Series
“Excellence in Radiation Protection”
Annual Symposium
Scientific career
FieldsRadiobiologist
Pharmacologist
Physiologist
InstitutionsUniversity of Rochester
Emory University
National Institutes of Health
University of Rochester
University of California
San Diego
ThesisRate Limiting Metabolic Processes in the Yeast (1934-1935)
Doctoral advisorDr. Theodore Stier
Other academic advisorsDr. Theodore Stier

Atomic Energy Project

The Atomic Energy Project at the University of Rochester was a graduate teaching program. The project had three divisions. William Freer Bale headed the Radiology and Biophysics division that worked largely on radioactive materials—for example, radium, radon, plutonium, and polonium. Stannard was responsible for 2 sections, the Radiation Toxicology section and the Radioautography section. Harold Hodge headed the Pharmacology and Toxicology division that focused on Uranium including inhalation studies. Joe W. Howland, M.D. headed the clinically oriented Medical Services division. Herbert Mermagen worked in the Medical Physics section was a radiological physicist, known today as a health physicist.[3][4][5]

Health Physics Society

Service
  • Education and Training Committee, Chairman
  • Board of Directors, 1965–1971
  • President-Elect, 1968–1969
  • President, 1969–1970

Awards and Honors
  • Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award
  • Founders Award
  • Fellow Award
  • J. Newell Stannard Lecture Series, “Excellence in Radiation Protection”, annual symposium

References
  1. Bair, William J.; Taschner, John C. (September 2003). "J. Newell Stannard". Health Physics. 85 (3): 262–263. doi:10.1097/00004032-200309000-00002.
  2. Walchuk, Mary (July 2005). "The Birth of the HPS: A Look Back The Society, the Profession, and the People Through the Eyes of J. Newell Stannard". Health Physics News. XXXIII (7): 1–9.
  3. Blair, Henry A., (27 April 1950) Quarterly Technical Report, 1 January 1950 thru 31 March 1950, Health and Biology UR-116, The University of Rochester, Atomic Energy Project, pp. 111.
  4. Rochester Alumni-Alumnae Review, September–October 1946, 30 University Personnel Return from Bikini (Operations Crossroads). Herbert Mermagen in photo. Vol. XXV, No. 1, p. 9.
  5. Rochester Review, Lee D. Alderman, Editor, December/January 1962, Medical Center News. Vol. XXIV, No. 2, p. 17-18.
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