28 Facts About Clarence Lushbaugh

Clarence Lushbaugh was considered an expert in radiological accidents and injuries, as well as a pioneer in radiation safety research, and he is known for his controversial research involving human subjects.

Clarence Lushbaugh identified an opportunity to analyze Kelley's remains to confirm or improve Los Alamos safety procedures concerning radiation exposure.

Clarence Lushbaugh had taken these organs and tissues from Kelley without permission from Kelley's nearest of kin.

Clarence Lushbaugh's career continued at the Medical and Health Sciences Division of Oak Ridge Associated Universities, where he was brought on to lead several scientific endeavors, most notably the Total Body Irradiation Program, an experimental program designed to determine the limits at which exposure to radiation would begin to cause radiation sickness.

Clarence Lushbaugh attended Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati, Ohio, near where he grew up.

Clarence Lushbaugh was an avid participant in the Boy Scouts of America.

Clarence Lushbaugh enrolled at the University of Cincinnati, where he studied for three years before moving in 1937 to the University of Chicago, finishing his bachelor's degree in anatomy in 1938.

Clarence Lushbaugh's thesis, titled The Effect of Alcoholic Intoxication Upon Acquired Resistance to Pneumococcal Infection in Rabbits, was published the following year in the Journal of Immunology.

Clarence Lushbaugh received credit on a study that explored these applications with human test subjects.

Clarence Lushbaugh left the University of Chicago in 1949 to join the Medical Center of the Los Alamos National Laboratory as a pathologist.

Clarence Lushbaugh passed the American Medical Association's scientific examination, and, though he had completed no formal residency, he was given credit for part of his tenure at the University of Chicago as medical practice and received a medical license.

Clarence Lushbaugh died 35 hours after this exposure from heart failure caused by the radiation he absorbed.

Clarence Lushbaugh had worked with radiological injuries in the past, but Kelley's autopsy presented an opportunity that none before it had.

Clarence Lushbaugh made this type of tissue removal part of the standard procedure for autopsies at Los Alamos, for both employees and non-employees, the latter of whom would act as a control group.

The Los Alamos Medical Center and the university settled five years later in 2001, but Clarence Lushbaugh neither settled nor conceded any wrongdoing.

Clarence Lushbaugh was called to perform the autopsy of the men, but because of the radioactivity of the remains, could not be in the same room as them to do so.

In 1963, shortly after his divorce from his first wife, Clarence Lushbaugh left the Los Alamos Laboratory to move to Oak Ridge, Tennessee, to join the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies as the Chief Scientist of the Medical and Health Sciences Division.

Clarence Lushbaugh would cite his divorce as part of the reason for the move, but the largest influence was the opportunity to continue his work with living subjects, whereas in Los Alamos he was limited to working with the deceased.

At Oak Ridge, Clarence Lushbaugh became involved in research at the behest of NASA and the Atomic Energy Commission designed to ascertain the point at which exposure to radiation would begin to cause acute radiation sickness.

Clarence Lushbaugh was brought on in 1964, along with hematologist Gould Andrews, to lead the project.

Clarence Lushbaugh later stated that he was not directly responsible for selecting which patients referred to the clinic would be placed in the experiment, though it was attested by several others that he was among the senior staff that formed the committee which made such decisions.

In 1975, Clarence Lushbaugh became the Chairman of the Medical and Health Sciences Division and was promoted to Chief of Radiation Medicine.

Clarence Lushbaugh served as its first director from 1976 to 1977.

Clarence Lushbaugh was a prolific researcher, and throughout his career his name appeared on over 150 scientific publications.

Clarence Lushbaugh returned to academia in 1980, joining the faculty of the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as an adjunct professor of epidemiology.

Clarence Lushbaugh traveled to the Soviet Union during this time to provide such counsel to American embassies and personnel in the region, and was reportedly impressed at the efficiency of the Soviet response to the incident.

Clarence Lushbaugh, known to those around him by his preferred nickname "Lush", had, despite his short and balding appearance, an imposing and combative presence, and a pointed sense of humor.

Clarence Lushbaugh died on Friday, October 13,2000, from complications related to Alzheimer's disease.