About the Author

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Ilya Obodovskiy was born in Moscow (former USSR) in 1935. He graduated from the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (MEPhI) and then worked in this Institute as a lecturer and a researcher till his retirement. In 1968 he received a PhD. For a long time, he was engaged in various problems in nuclear physics and radiation protection. For several years he was a manager of the project "Detection of Mutagen and Carcinogen Hazard by Physico-chemical Techniques". For many years he studied the effects of radiation on a living organism. The results of his scientific works were published in more than 90 scientific papers and books. In 2001 he retired and lives in San Diego, California since. He is still an editorial board member of the Springer journal "Instruments and Experimental Techniques".