Ernest Tsivoglou

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Ernest Constantine Tsivoglou (born 1922 in New Hampshire , United States , † October 22, 2007 in Atlanta , Georgia , United States) was an American water and radiation protectionist.

Ernest Constantine Tsivoglou was born to Constantine Jordan Tsivoglou from Constantinople and Lucinda Stearns Tsivoglou from Boston . He grew up in New York City and went to school in Manhattan College . During the Second World War he served in the US Army Corps of Engineers in India from January 1944 . He was initially a technician for the drinking water supply in the 30th on-site hospital in Panagarh , West Bengal , and later the responsible warehouse manager in the medical depot for East India in Calcutta . In 1946 he left the armed forces and then studied plumbing technology at the University of Minnesota . Shortly after taking up a job as a plumbing engineer at the US Public Health Service's Taft Center in Cincinnati , he began postgraduate studies in nuclear physics at Ohio State University . He did his doctorate with a thesis on lowering the radon concentration in uranium mining . He then returned to the Taft Center and soon became head of the technical services and research department, where he made pioneering contributions to water protection , particularly with regard to radioactive contamination. From 1966 to 1974 he was a professor of sanitary engineering and water conservation at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta . Among other things, he researched the self-cleaning of the Chattahoochee in the Atlanta area. He also prepared an expert opinion on the consequences of the release of radioactivity from the planned nuclear power plant in Kaiseraugst , Aargau. He retired as a technical advisor in the early 1980s.

Ernest Tsivoglou died of complications from a heart attack. He left behind his wife Julaine, whom he met while studying, and three children. He is buried in Georgia National Cemetery in Canton , Cherokee County .

In his doctoral thesis, Ernest Tsivoglou developed the Tsivoglou method, named after him, for determining the concentration of radon decay products in the air. It collects aerosol particles on a filter and then measures the total alpha activity on the filter over three different time periods. It was later improved by J. W. Thomas.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o family obituary .
  2. ↑ a b Family obituary for Julaine Tsivoglou (accessed November 18, 2016).
  3. ↑ China-Burma-India Theater of World War II - Hospital Units in CBI (accessed November 18, 2016).
  4. ↑ Glenn T. Seaborg , Benjamin S. Loeb : The Atomic Energy Commission under Nixon - Adjusting to Troubled Times , Chapter 6 Monticello . Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 978-1-349-60618-4 .
  5. ^ Ernest Tsivoglou: Control of the radioactive contamination in Kaiseraugst. Expert opinion drawn up on behalf of the Water Management Office of the Canton of Baselland from June 4, 1970. Quoted in: Rudolf Eppler: Technischer progress, third volume , p. 29. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin.
  6. ^ J. W. Thomas: Modification of the Tsivoglou method for radon daughters in air. Health Physics 19 (5), p. 691, 1970.
personal data
SURNAME Tsivoglou, Ernest
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tsivoglou, Ernest Constantine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American radiation protectionist and water protection officer
DATE OF BIRTH 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH New Hampshire , United States
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 2007
Place of death Atlanta , Georgia , United States