History
- 1929: The U.S. Advisory Committee on X-Ray and Radium Protection was formed.
- 1946: Renamed to National Committee on Radiation Protection and Measurements.
- 1964: Chartered by Congress and renamed to National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements.
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Famous quotes containing the word history:
“America is the only nation in history which, miraculously, has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.”
—Attributed to Georges Clemenceau (1841–1929)
“False history gets made all day, any day,
the truth of the new is never on the news
False history gets written every day
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the lesbian archaeologist watches herself
sifting her own life out from the shards she’s piecing,
asking the clay all questions but her own.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
“Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)