What is a mutation? Identifying heritable change in the offspring of survivors at Hiroshima and Nagasaki / M. Susan Lindee.
Abstract:
'This paper examines the working concept of mutation' in the original genetics study of the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission (ABCC), established in Japan to track the long-term medical effects (both somatic and genetic) of exposure to radiation on the survivors of the August 1945 bombings. The genetics work of this organization was guided by University of Michigan geneticist James V. Neel, who was part of the original study team of the ABCC in 1946, and his younger collaborator William J. Schull, who came to Japan to work as ABCC geneticist in the summer of 1949.'
Journal of the history of biology Vol. 25 (1992), p. 231-255