Jack Boag: Quaker scientist and peacemaker - preview
Quaker peacemakers come in a variety of styles We have our activists and demonstrators but we also have a tradition of 'quiet processes and small circles' and of Friends 'speaking truth to power' Jack Boag was a life-long and dedicated pacifist He was also a brilliant scientist, a quiet and modest man who used his intellectual powers to try to influence political decision-makers towards peace He was an expert in radiation physics and although his work was directed towards the medical uses of radiation he was well informed about nuclear energy and bomb-making He became president of a number of major scientific societies, including the International Association for Radiation Research For the last eleven years of his working life he was professor and head of the medical physics department at the Royal Marsden Hospital and Institute of Cancer Research
G. Gordon Steel
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