Rosalie Bertell

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Rosalie Bertell (fourth from right) at the Bhopal International Medical Commission

Rosalie Bertell (born April 4, 1929 in Buffalo , † June 14, 2012 in Yardlet, Pennsylvania ) was an American scientist, author, biometrician , environmental activist and Catholic nun. Since 1970 she has worked in the field of environmental health . She was a nun of the Gray Nuns of the Sacret Heart , where she is best known for her work in ionizing radiation. Having held dual citizenship in Canada and the United States, she has worked in environmental health since 1970.

life and work

Rosalie Bertell was born in Buffalo, the second largest city in the US state of New York. Her mother was Canadian and her father was a US citizen. She was a member of the Roman Catholic Congregation Gray Nuns of the Sacred Heart in Canada. Bertell was a Canadian and US citizen.

In 1966 Rosalie Bertell received her PhD in biometrics from the Catholic University of America . She worked in the field of environmental epidemiology and researched the relationship between low ionizing radiation doses and cancer. From 1969 to 1978 she was a research fellow at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo. She has served as an advisor to the Atomic Energy Agency in the United States and the Department of Environment and Health in Canada. In 1996 she founded the International Medical Commission Chernobyl and was also a member of the International Medical Commission of Bhopal . Rosalie Bertell was President of the Institute for International Public Health from 1987 to 2001.

In the 1990s she appeared as a vocal critic of the use of uranium ammunition .

Bertell supported conspiracy theories such as the existence of chemtrails as well as the alleged deliberate triggering of natural disasters (including the Haiti earthquake in 2010 ) and influencing the weather through the research program HAARP . According to Bertell, HAARP is linked to 50 years of increasingly destructive attempts to understand and control the upper atmosphere. She believed that with the ELF waves generated by HAARP and similar systems in Russia , it was possible to trigger disturbances in tectonic plates (for example the San Andreas Fault ).

Awards

Publications (selection)

  • No Immediate Danger: Prognosis for a Radioactive Earth , 1985
  • Handbook for estimating health effects from exposure to ionizing radiation , 1986
  • Planet Earth: The latest weapon of war , 2000

In German translation

  • No acute danger? The radioactive contamination of the earth . With a foreword by Petra Kelly . Munich 1987 (German first edition).
  • War weapon planet earth . With a foreword by Vandana Shiva Gelnhausen-Roth 11/2011 (German first edition). JK-Fischer Verlag, ISBN 978-3-941-95636-0

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Right Livelihood Award: 1986 - Rosalie Bertell , English and biography
  2. ↑ “Anti-Nuclear Nun” Rosalie Bertell Dies at 83. Accessed December 12, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Women on War: An International Anthology of Writings from Antiquity to Present , ed. by Daniela Gioseffi, The Feminist Press, New York 2003, ISBN 978-1-55861-409-3 , p. 18
  4. ^ Mary-Louise Engels: Rosalie Bertell: Scientist, Eco-Feminist, Visionary . Women's Press, Toronto 2005, ISBN 0-88961-450-4 , pp. 152 ff .
  5. ↑ Rosalie Bertell: Slowly Wrecking Our Planet . In: Canadian Woman Studies . tape 31 , no. 1–2 , 2014, ISSN  0713-3235 , p. 113-117 .
  6. ^ Mary-Louise Engels: Rosalie Bertell: Scientist, Eco-Feminist, Visionary . Women's Press, Toronto 2005, ISBN 0-88961-450-4 , pp. 155 .
  7. ↑ 1000 PeaceWomen Worldwide. Rosalie Bertell , accessed on: April 14, 2018, (In: German digital version of: Verein 1000 Frauen für den Nobel Peace Prize (Ed.): 1000 PeaceWomen Across the Globe , Series: Contrast Book, Verlag Scalo, Zurich 2005).

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personal data
SURNAME Bertell, Rosalie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American biometrician and environmental activist
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Buffalo , New York
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 2012
Place of death Yardlet, Pennsylvania