Bevelacqua, Joseph John
Mortazavi, Seyed Mohammad Javad https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0139-2774
Article History
Received: 7 June 2018
Accepted: 11 October 2018
First Online: 30 October 2018
Authors’ information
: <sup>1</sup>Joseph John Bevelacqua, Ph.D., CHP, RRPT is the President of Bevelacqua Resources. A theoretical nuclear physicist by training, Dr. Bevelacqua is a Certified Health Physicist, Registered Radiation Protection Technologist, and Certified Senior Reactor Operator and has over 40 years of professional experience. This experience includes the medical, university, fuel cycle, accelerator, power reactor, environmental, and non-ionizing radiation areas. He was a key player in the Three Mile Island and Hanford cleanup activities, and is an active researcher with over 130 publications including four health physics textbooks. His research areas include cancer therapy using heavy ions and antimatter, theoretical nuclear and high-energy physics, mathematical physics, general relativity and cosmology, field theory, astrophysics, and applied health physics. Bevelacqua Resources, 343 Adair Drive, Richland, WA99352, USA. E-mail: bevelresou@aol.com.<sup>2</sup>SMJ Mortazavi, Ph.D is a scientist at the University of Wiscons in Milwaukee. He was also a visiting scientist at Fox Chase Cancer Center (FCCC). He is the founder and past president of the Ionizing and Non-ionizing Radiation Protection Research Center (INIRPRC). He has authored more than 200 papers in peer reviewed journals in the areas such as radiation protection, radiation shielding, natural radiation, radio adaptive response and the possible role of this phenomenon in radiation protection. He has also published papers on the key role of radio adaptation in the long-term stay of humans in space. Since his first report in 2003, he has worked on different methods of biological protection against detrimental effects of high levels of space radiation during long tern manned space missions. Biophotonics Lab, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, 3200 N Cramer St., Milwaukee, WI53211. E-mail: mortazav@uwm.edu.
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: Authors declare that they have no competing interests.