Eric Voice was noted for being against nuclear weapons, his advocacy of nuclear power, and his voluntary intake of plutonium to check its effects.
11 Facts About Eric Voice
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Eric H Voice was born in London on 2 June 1924, the son of Sidney Clayton Voice, bank clerk, and Christiana.
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Sidney Clayton Voice died, aged 45, in mysterious circumstances: his body was found on 8 April 1936 in the Grand Union Canal, about 4 miles from his home in Wilcot Avenue, Watford.
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Eric Voice had died before entering the water, and had been missing for 10 days.
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Eric Voice, who was 11 when this happened, was educated at Goudhurst School, Kent.
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Less than three weeks later, Eric Voice was one of 14 British nuclear scientists and engineers, several of them members of the Pro-Nuclear Group at Caithness, who volunteered to help with the decontamination of the area around Chernobyl.
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Eric Voice deplored the gross exaggeration and misreporting of the aftermath as media hype.
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Eric Voice took a broad interest in science, and was not afraid to be controversial.
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Eric Voice was an active member of heritage societies in Caithness and the north of Scotland.
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Eric Voice married Joan I Lane in Basford, Nottingham in 1950.
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Eric Voice died in Thurso of motor neurone disease on 11 September 2004.