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Bill Moss came to Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1953 after receiving his B.S. in biology and chemistry from Sterling College, Kansas, in 1950. In 1958, he became a staff member in the Industrial Hygiene Group where he was responsible for developing analytical chemical procedures for analyzing low concentrations of inorganic and organic compounds and radioelements. He was sent on assignment to Madrid, Spain, in 1966 to assist the Spanish Nuclear Energy Board with their evaluation of plutonium contamination at the Palomeres site. In 1975, Bill was named section leader of the Bioanalytical and Chemistry Section, and from 1984 through 1990, he was section leader of the Radiochemistry Group. His research interests included the behaivor and characterization of airborne radioactive aerosols in the working environment and concentrations of radioactive elements in human tissues. Bill has co-authored numerous publications and has served as a member of the Health Physics Society and the American Industrial Hygiene Association. In 1994, Bill joined the Laboratory's Human Studies Project Team and was responsible for re-evaluating the human plutonium injection experiments conducted in the mid-forties. Bill retired from the Laboratory in 1990 and has actively continued his research as a Laboratory Associate.
Excerpt from: Radiation Protection and the Human Radiation Experiments; Los Alamos Science 1995, No 23; Los Alamos National Laboratory.