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Eric J. Hall, Obituary, Radiation Protection Dosimetry, Volume 123, Issue 3, February 2007, Page 409, https://doi.org/10.1093/rpd/ncm193
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Victor P. Bond (1919–2007)
Victor P. Bond, 87, whose service to BNL as a medical physician, senior scientist, Medical Department Chair and Associate Director for Life Sciences, spanned 44 years, died on 23 January, 2007.
Vic was born November 30, 1919 in Santa Clara, CA, received his B.A. at the University of California Berkeley in 1943, his MD at the University of California San Francisco and Ph.D. in medical physics again at Berkeley in 1952. Vic received his early medical training in the US Navy and rose to the rank of Rear Admiral in the reserves. After his initial work at the US Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory, Vic moved to Brookhaven National Laboratory to join Dr Eugene P. Cronkite at the Medical Department. Vic soon took on the leadership of the Radiobiology Division there and became chairman of the Medical Department a few years later. He was appointed Associate Director of BNL in 1967 a post he held until his retirement. For the last 10 years of his life, he lived in Richland, WA and worked with his colleagues at Washington State University and the Pacific Northwest Laboratory, publishing as recently as 2006.
