Nordic Society for Radiation Protection

Prior to the Second World War, radiation security had been a to a great extent optional worry of radiologists and radiological physicists. With the centralization of exertion under the Manhattan Project it was soon understood this would include working with amounts and sorts of radiation and radioactive materials that had not beforehand been conceived. Therefore an unmistakable gathering of researchers inside the task were doled out full time to what was named "Wellbeing Physics". The main meeting to survey this new field was held at Ohio State University from June 13-15 1955. Toward the end of the Conference the US Atomic Energy Commission Fellowship Alumni voted overwhelmingly to shape an expert Health Physics Society. 

By mid 1959, with participation of more than 1000, the Health Physics Society set up "Segments" to give a system whereby nations could have their own sub-association. The principal segment to be framed was that of France in 1961 with Japan and the United Kingdom following in 1962 and 1963. One the primary demonstrations of the 1963-64 Health Physics Society President, William T. Ham Jr. was to set up an Ad Hoc Committee on the Internationalization of Health Physics with K Z Morgan as its Chairman. As per reports delivered later by Morgan he in the end reached around 1000 people in somewhere in the range of 70 nations, every one of whom supported the development of another, genuinely universal, wellbeing material science affiliation. As an aftereffect of this reaction the Ad Hoc Committee was extended to include 46 people from around 25 nations. At a meeting in London in Feb 1964 a sub-board of trustees drafted what were called "Articles of Agreement for the arrangement of an International Health Physics or Radiation Protection Society". 

These were concurred by the Health Physics Society Board which chose to shape an expert tempore Executive Council to further study and facilitate these proposition. The initially meeting of the master tempore Executive Council was held at Gatlinburg, Tennessee on 11-12 June 1964, with K Z Morgan as President. This meeting looked into the articles of assention and endorsed them collectively. It additionally concurred that the name of the association ought to be the International Radiation Protection Association (IRPA), built up the structure of a Constitution and determined the parts of the Executive Council and the General Assembly.