The Woman Who Knew Too Much, Revised Ed. – Alice Stewart and the Secrets of Rad…

The Woman Who Knew Too Much, Revised Ed.Alice Stewart and the Secrets of Radiation\nAuthor(s): Gayle Greene\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of Michigan Press, United States\nImprint: The University of Michigan Press\nISBN-13: 9780472053568, 978-0472053568\nSynopsis\nThe Woman Who Knew Too Much illuminates the life and achievements of the remarkable woman scientist who revolutionized the concept of radiation risk. For more than 40 years, Alice Stewart [tel] warned that low-dose radiation was more dangerous than anyone acknowledged. In the 1950s she discovered that fetal x-rays double a childs risk of developing cancer. Two decades later, in her 70s, she again astounded the scientific world by showing that the [url] nuclear weapons industry was about 20 times more dangerous than safety regulations admitted. This finding put her at the center of an international controversy over radiation risk. In 1990, the New York Times called Stewart perhaps the Energy Department's most.