Johnson, Carl J.
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| Birthname | Carl Jean Johnson | ||||
| born on | 2 July 1929 at 01:00 (= 01:00 AM ) | ||||
| Place | Sims (Grant County), Indiana, 40n30, 85w51 | ||||
| Timezone | CST h6w (is standard time) | ||||
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Biography
American public health physician who opposed nuclear testing. In 1976 he was the Director of the Jefferson County, Colorado Department of Health. He reported that soil around the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant contained 44 times more plutonium than the government claimed. In 1977 he reported higher-than-average rates of leukemia and cancer among the local people. In 1980 he reported that plant workers had eight times more brain tumors than expected. In 1981 he was fired. He later won a whistleblower lawsuit against Jefferson County, Colorado. In 1985 he lost an election to become the Boulder County, Colorado Director of Health.
Johnson died on 29 December 1988, aged 59, in Lakewood, Colorado of complications following coronary bypass surgery.
Events
- Work : Fired/Laid off/Quit 1981 (Fired)
Source Notes
Sy Scholfield provided birth certificate from Indiana archives, copy on file.
Categories
- Diagnoses : Body Part Problems : Surgery (Coronary bypass surgery)
- Vocation : Medical : Physician
- Vocation : Politics : Candidate and lost
- Vocation : Politics : Government employee
