Austin M. Brues

Austin Moore Brues (April 25, 1906 – February 27, 1991) was an American pioneer of radiation biology.

Biography Austin Moore Brues was born April 25, 1906, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and was educated at the Roxbury Latin School in Boston, Massachusetts. Brues attended Harvard College, graduating with a bachelor's degree in 1926. He then studied at Harvard Medical School, receiving an M.D. in 1930. In 1945 he signed the Szilárd petition, calling on President Truman to make public the full terms of Japan's surrender before dropping the atomic bomb.

In 1945, Brues also became a professor of medicine at the University of Chicago, a position he held until his retirement in 1979, when he was appointed professor emeritus. Brues was the president of the Radiation Research Society between 1955 and 1956.

Brues died February 27, 1991, at his home in Hinsdale, Illinois, from Alzheimer's disease.