John D. Boice, Jr.

John Dunning Boice Jr. is an American radiation epidemiologist and health physicist. Life Boice was born in Brooklyn, New York in December 1945. His father, John Dunning Boice Sr., served in the United States Army Air Corps. His mother, Irene, was the daughter of a Pennsylvania coal miner. His father's career necessitated frequent moves for the family during Boice's childhood including three years in France. The family settled in El Paso, Texas when he was fourteen. After graduating from Bel Air High School in the city, he enrolled at Texas Western College (now University of Texas at El Paso) graduating in 1967 with a bachelor's degree in physics and mathematics. He went on to receive a master's degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in nuclear engineering in 1968 and the following year was commissioned as an officer in the US Public Health Service.

Distinguished scientific service Radiation Effects Research Foundation, Science Council member International Epidemiology Institute, Scientific Director International Commission on Radiological Protection commissioner National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements emeritus member United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation, U.S. delegate Veterans Advisory Board on Dose Reconstruction, member

Editorial service Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Associate Editor Journal of Radiological Protection, International Advisor , Senior Editor

Awards ???? - Distinguished Service Medal from the U.S. Public Health Service 1994 - Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award from the U.S. Department of Energy 1994 - Gorgas Medal from the American Military Surgeons of the United States 1999 - University of Texas at El Paso Distinguished Alumnus Award 2002 - Health Physics Society R.S. Landauer Memorial Lecturer, Radiation Risks, a Review of What We Know from Medical Radiation Studies 2007 - Health Physics Society Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award 2007 - Failla Memorial Lecture from the Greater New York Chapter of the Health Physics Society and the Radiological Medical Physics Society 2008 - Harvard School of Public Health Alumni Award of Merit 2009 - NCRP Thirty-Third Lauriston S. Taylor Lecturer