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This report is a transcript of an interview with Dr. Constatine J. Maletskos by representatives of the DOE Office of Human Radiation Experiments. Dr. Maletskos was selected for this interview because of his research at the Radioactivity Center of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), at the Harvard Medical School, and at the New England Deaconess Hospital. After a brief biographical sketches Dr. Maletskos discusses at length about his work at the Center on research that used subjects from the Walter E. Fernald State School in Waverly, Massachusetts and the New England Center for Aging, as well as blood volume work involving pregnant women. He further discusses his work with radium Dial Painters, his work with Dr. Robley Evans, and various other subjects concerning experiments with human subjects under the auspices of the AEC.
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Septem ber 1995 Setting; January 20,1995, Gloucester, M assachusetts Interviewers: Darrell Fisher (Pacific Northwest Laboratory) and Karollne Gourley (DOE Office of Human Radiation Exprerimente) ORAL fflSTORY OF HEALTH PHYSICIST Conducted January 20,1995, in Gloucester, Massachusetts, by Dr. Darrell Fisher, a health physicist from Pacific Northwest Laboratory, and Karoline Gourley, a researcher with the Office o f Human Radiation Experiments, U.S. Department o f Constantine Maletskos was selected fo r the oral history project because o f his research at the Radioactivity Center at the Massachusetts Institute o f Technology. The oral history includes Dr. Maletskos’s work at the Center on research projects that used subjects from the Walter E. Femald State School in Waverly, Massachu setts, and the New England Center fo r the Aging, as well as blood volume studies involving pregnant women. Dr. Maletskos was He received his B.S. in Quantitative Biology (1942), his S.M. in Biophysics (1943), and his Ph.D. in Biology, Chemistry and Physics (1954), all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He married in 1947 and has three children. Dr. Maletskos was at MIT in various capacities from 1942 through 1976. In addition, he has held appointments at the Harvard Medical School and the New England Deaconess Hospital, and has worked as an independent consultant. While at MIT, he worked closely with Dr. Robley Evans and other scientists in the Radioac tivity Center. There, he studied the effects of food phytates on calcium metabolism in children, and sought to determine the metabolic differences between radium and mesothorium, using residents at the New England Center for the Aging. During his career. Dr. Maletskos has also served on many committees and panels and has membership in numerous societies, including: Journal Editor, Health Physics Fellow, Health Physics Society Trustee, Manomet Bird Observatory Panel on the Implementation Requirements of Environmental Radiation Standards (for High-Level Wastes), National Academy of Sciences Consultant—National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements Radium and Isotope Committee, New England Deaconess Hospital Dr. Maletskos has published extensively on radiation biophysics, radiobiology, and radia tion measurement and protection, as well as environmental assessment and health and other
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