This platinum issue of Radiation Research commemorates seven decades of service to the Radiation Community since the founding of the concept of the Radiation Research Society (RRS) by Dr. Gino Failla at the Oberlin College Conference in Ohio in 1950, and the Society’s establishment in 1952.

Dr. Failla was born in Sicily but received his engineering and physics education at Columbia University while also working part-time at New York Memorial Hospital and where he became very interested in, and published several papers reporting, the biological effects of radiation. Dr. Failla received his doctorate from the Sorbonne in 1923 under the guidance of Marie Curie. He returned to Columbia University as Professor of Radiology and Director of the Radiological Research Laboratory in 1942. In 1949, he married Patricia McClement, a biophysicist who became his research associate. They moved to Argonne National Laboratory where he became a Senior Scientist Emeritus [taken from...

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