NCRP

BERND KAHN

BERND KAHN

Kahn

is a radiochemist and health physicist; he specializes in developing radioanalytical methods to measure environmental radionuclides at low levels and in applying them in the design and operation of environmental radiation monitoring programs. He has degrees in chemical engineering (BS, New Jersey Institute of Technology, 1951), physics (MS, Vanderbilt University, 1953), and chemistry (PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1961), and has worked for the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (1951 to 1954), the U.S. Public Health Service (1954 to 1974), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (1970 to 1974), and the Georgia Institute of Technology (1974 –present).

He is associate director, Environmental Radiation Laboratory, Electro-Optical Systems Laboratory, Georgia Tech Research Institute, and professor emeritus, Nuclear and Radiological Engineering Program, Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology. His current research is radiation detection and spectroscopy aspects of scintillating nanoparticles within a glass matrix.