Physics for Radiation Protection , James E. Martin , Wiley, New York, 2000. $150.00 (713 pp.). ISBN 0-471-35373-6
Permissible Dose: A History of Radiation Protection in the Twentieth Century, J. Samuel Walker , U. of California Press, Los Angeles, 2000. $35.00 (180 pp.). ISBN 0-520-22328-4
A reader comes to James E. Martin’s Physics for Radiation Protection aware of its author’s considerable reputation; in his half-century career he has trained many hundreds of students at the University of Michigan and written many influential and informative works. As stated in the preface, this book “is intended to be a text of basic physics concepts that health physicists and other radiation protection specialists need, presented at a level that can be understood by people with limited science background.” When viewed in that limited context, the book appears to do its job; given...
