Eric Voice
British physicist (1924-2004)
Eric Voice (2 June 1924 – 11 September 2004) was a British nuclear scientist. He was noted for being against nuclear weapons, his advocacy of nuclear power, and his voluntary intake of plutonium to check its effects.
Biography
Eric H Voice was born in London on 2 June 1924, the son of Sidney Clayton Voice, bank clerk, and Christiana (née Brader). Sidney Clayton Voice died, aged 45, in mysterious circumstances: his body was found on 8 April 1936 in the Grand Union Canal, about 4 miles from his home in Wilcot Avenue, Watford. He had died before entering the water, and had been missing for 10 days.
Eric, who was 11 when this happened, was educated at Goudhurst School, Kent. From there, at age 16, he went to be a research chemist with Boots.
After the war, in 1945, he joined the UKAEA, Harwell as a research biochemist, where he stayed for 11 years. In 1956 he was made an Experimental Officer at UKAEA, Dounreay, progressing to Senior Experimental Officer in 1959 and then to Principal Scientific Officer at UKAEA, Winfrith in 1961. He returned to Dounreay in 1974.
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