Edward Pochin

Sir Edward Eric Pochin CBE FRCP (22 September 1909 – 29 January 1990) was a British physician, a specialist in the dangers of ionizing radiation.[1][2][3]

Pochin served as advisor to the leading counsel for the British Government[4] and expert witness at the Royal Commission into British nuclear tests in Australia in 1984–1987.[5]

He was appointed a CBE in 1959, and appointed Knight Bachelor in 1975.

References

  1. ‘POCHIN, Sir Edward (Eric)’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Nov 2012 accessed 4 April 2013
  2. Edward Pochin, 1983, Nuclear Radiation: Risks and Benefits, Clarendon Press, Oxford
  3. Robin Auld
  4. McClelland Royal Commission


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