Jay M. Gould, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Jay M. Gould

American epidemiologist and economist

Date of Birth: 19-Aug-1915

Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, United States

Date of Death: 16-Sep-2005

Profession: economist, epidemiologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Jay M. Gould

  • Jay Martin Gould (August 19, 1915 – September 16, 2005), was an economist, businessman, statistician and epidemiologist who cofounded the Radiation and Public Health Project in 1989.
  • It was Gould's contention that radiation from nuclear power plants was causing high rates of cancer in surrounding neighborhoods.
  • For more than two decades, Gould routinely warned that low levels of radiation from nuclear reactors were far more dangerous than commonly believed.
  • But his research was criticized by many in the scientific community as being alarmist.In 1996, Gould published the book The Enemy Within: The High Cost of Living Near Nuclear Reactors.Gould was born in Chicago in 1915 and raised in New York.
  • He earned his bachelor's degree from Brooklyn College and his doctorate from Columbia University.
  • He was originally an economist, specializing in antitrust and input-output economics.
  • Dr.
  • Gould was an early adopter of information technology in economic applications in the 1960s and 1970s, co-founding Economic Information Systems, Inc.
  • (EIS), which assembled and computerized one of the largest economic information databases of its time, used primarily for marketing and market share analysis [citation: Antitrust Law Journal Vol.
  • 47, No.
  • 3, Twenty Sixth Annual Meeting, August 7-9, 1978, pp.
  • 1089-1098].
  • EIS was sold to the Control Data Corporation in 1982.
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  • Gould applied many of the same regional analytic and statistical approaches used at EIS in his later work on radiation and public health issues.
  • He was a member of the EPA Science Advisory Board under President Carter.

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