Christopher Busby
Environmental Research SIA, Latvian Academy of Sciences, Latvia
Biography
Christopher Busby obtained a 1st class degree in Chemistry from London University and a PhD Chemical Physics from the University of Kent. He worked in the physical chemistry of molecular cell interactions for Welcome and began research in the biological effects of internal radionuclides in 1989. He was a member of two UK government committees on internal radiation and has published more than 30 research papers, many articles and three books on this issue. He is a reviewer for several journals on the issue of radiation and health. He was visiting Professor at the University of Ulster until his retirement and is currently Director of Environmental Research SIA, based in Riga, Latvia. He has been Scientific Secretary of the European Committee on Radiation Risk based in Brussels since 1998.
Abstract
Abstract : The breast cancer epidemic: Evidence for a radiogenic cause