John D. Boice Jr., Date of Birth, Place of Birth

John D. Boice Jr.

American radiation epidemiologist and health physicist

Date of Birth: 01-Dec-1945

Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, United States

Profession: engineer, physicist, epidemiologist

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

John Dunning Boice Jr.
is an American radiation epidemiologist and health physicist.
He served for over 27 years in the US Public Health Service where he developed and became the first chief of the Radiation Epidemiology Branch at the National Cancer Institute.
Boice's "seminal discoveries and over 440 publications have been used to formulate public health measures to reduce population exposure to radiation and prevent radiation-associated diseases." He is the President of the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP), Bethesda, Maryland, and Professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.