Background
Taylor, Lauriston Sale was born on June 1, 1902 in Brooklyn. Son of Charles and Nancy Bell (Sale) Taylor.
Taylor, Lauriston Sale was born on June 1, 1902 in Brooklyn. Son of Charles and Nancy Bell (Sale) Taylor.
Student, Stevens Institute of Technology, 1922. AB, Cornell University, 1926. Doctor of Science, University Pennsylvania, 1960.
Doctor of Science, St. Procopius College, 1965. Postgraduate, Columbia University, 1930. Postgraduate, Cornell University, 1931.
He established standards for X-ray radiation exposure for the first time in the 1920s, which eventually led to a group of government organizations that set the standards over the next 50 years. Taylor remained active in debates about radiation exposure into his 80s, often advocating the viewpoint that small doses of radiation were not important. He served as president of the Health Physics Society (HPS) from 1958 to 1959.
In 1977 the Food and Drug Administration of the United States. Department of Health and Human Services initiated a series of 25 recorded interviews with early radiation workers to provide an historical overview of their research and discoveries primarily in the fields of medical physics, radiation, and radiobiology.
Taylor moderated the series and also was an interview subject. Interview subjects Howard Andrews Walter Binks, physicist and specialist in radiology Carl Bjorn Braestrup Austin M. Brues, physician National Research Council Robley Evans George Henny Paul Henshaw, physician National Research Council Norman Hilberry, "Mr.
Scram", axe man at the first chain reaction for Chicago Pile 1, Director of Argonne National Laboratory, 1957-1961 Lillian East. Jacobson, Physicist, Radiotherapy Department and Laboratory Division of Montefiore Hospital, New York Harold East. Johns, Canadian medical physicist George Laurence, Canadian nuclear physicist John H. Lawrence, American physicist and physician, nuclear medicine pioneer Herbert M. Parker, English born, American pioneer in medical radiation therapy and radiation safety Sir Edward Eric Pochin, British physician, specialist in ionizing radiation safety Edith Quimby, American medical researcher and physicist, pioneer in nuclear medicine John East. Rose, health physicist Roberts Rugh, Department of Radiology, Columbia University, directed research on the effects of ionizing radiation, served as senior medical consultant Eric East. Smith, British specialist in the field of ionizing radiation James Newell Stannard, radiobiologist, Pharmacologist and Physiologist at the National Institutes of Health Lauriston Sale "Laurie" Taylor East. Dale Trout, radiologist, Professor Emeritus of Radiological Physics, Oregon State University John G. Trump, American high-voltage engineer and physicist John Austin "Jack" Victoreen, self-taught radio engineer, pioneer of radiation detection instruments Samuel Reid Warren, Junior., professor in electrical engineering at the University of Pennsylvania and radiation physicist Shields Warren, pioneer pathologist and expert in medical radiation Marvin Martin Dixon Williams, pioneer in medical physics, head of physics at the Mayo Clinic Harold O. Wyckoff, pioneer in measurement of radiation and radiation protection standards.
Served with United States Army Air Force, 1943-1945, European Theatre of Operations. Fellow American Physical Society, Health Physics Society (president 1959, Distinguished Achievement award 1974), American College Dentists (honorary). Member Washington Academy of Sciences, Radiation Research Society, American Roentgen Ray Society (Janeway medal 1954), Radiological Society North America (Gold medal 1954), Washington Academy Medicine, Deutsche Rontgen-Gesellschaft (honorary), Societas Nippon Radiologica (honorary, citation 1969).
Married Azulah Frances Walker, December 28, 1925 (deceased 1972). Children: Lauriston Sale (deceased 1992), Nelson Walker. Married Robena Harper, November 24, 1973.