Ernest Tsivoglou
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
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o family obituary .
- ↑ a b Family obituary for Julaine Tsivoglou (accessed November 18, 2016).
- ↑ China-Burma-India Theater of World War II - Hospital Units in CBI (accessed November 18, 2016).
- ↑ 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 .
- ^ 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.
- ^ J. W. Thomas: Modification of the Tsivoglou method for radon daughters in air. Health Physics 19 (5), p. 691, 1970.
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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 |