Chiyo Nohara, member of a research team studying the effects of radioactivity on butterflies in the Fukushima area, died at Okinawa, Japan, on 28 October 2015 after a long illness. Ms Nohara’s presentation of her group’s work was a remarkable feature of the Scientific and Citizen Forum on the Genetic Effects of Radioactivity organised by IndependentWHO in Geneva on 29 November 2014. IndependentWHO sent a message of condolences to her colleagues at the University of the Ryukus, Okinawa.
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Geneva, Switzerland, 30 October 2015
Message of condolences on the death of Chiyo Nohara to the members of the BCPH Unit of Molecular Physiology, Department of Chemistry, Biology and Marine Science, Faculty of Science, and the Instrumental Research Center,
University of the Ryukyus, Nishihara, Okinawa 903-0213, Japan
The members of the Collective IndependentWHO – Health and Nuclear Power are deeply saddened to learn of the premature death of your colleague Chiyo Nohara. We remember with emotion her remarkable presentation at our Forum in Geneva last year of your team’s important work on the biological impacts of the Fukushima accident on the pale grass blue butterfly. She had the courage to make the long trip to Europe when she was already ill, most probably from the effects of field work in the irradiated areas. By doing so she made a major contribution to disseminating your pioneering work to a wider international audience of concerned citizens and scientists. The report on our “Scientific and Citizen Forum on the Genetic Effects of Ionizing Radiation”, soon to be published, will be dedicated to her memory. Kindly convey our heartfelt condolences to her colleagues, family and friends.
For the Collective IndependentWHO – Health and Nuclear Power
organizers of the Scientific and Citizen Forum on the Genetic Effects of Ionizing Radiation, Geneva, Switzerland, 29 November 2014
Alison Katz
katz.alison@gmail.com ;
G. Gordon-Lennox
gordon.lennox@wanadoo.fr
Chiyo Nohara