Download or read book Radiation Risk Estimates in Normal and Emergency Situations written by Arrigo A. Cigna and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-05-22 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book follows up a 2005 International Conference in Yerevan, Armenia dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the 1935 publication of the "green paper", by N.W. Timofeeff-Ressovsky, K. Zimmer and M. Delbruck entitled "On the origin of gene mutations and gene structure". This was the starting point of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop, whose proceedings are published in this book, with papers dealing directly with Timofeeff-Ressovsky’s life, and the "green pamphlet".