E. Gail de Planque

Eileen Gail de Planque
Born1944 (1944)
DiedSeptember 8, 2010(2010-09-08) (aged 65–66)
Other namesEileen Gail de Planque Burke
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SpouseFrank Burke
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Scientific career
FieldsNuclear physics
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Eileen Gail de Planque (also Eileen Gail de Planque Burke, best known as E. Gail de Planque; 1944 – September 8, 2010) was an American nuclear physicist. An expert on environmental radiation measurements, she was the first woman and first health physicist to become a commissioner at the US government's Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).[3] Her technical areas of expertise included environmental radiation, nuclear facility monitoring, personnel dosimetry, radiation shielding, radiation transport, and solid state dosimetry.[4][5]

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