Jay Martin Gould (August 19, 1915 – September 16, 2005), was an economist, businessman, statistician and epidemiologist who cofounded the Radiation and Public Health Project in 1989.
It was Gould's contention that radiation from nuclear power plants was causing high rates of cancer in surrounding neighborhoods.
For more than two decades, Gould routinely warned that low levels of radiation from nuclear reactors were far more dangerous than commonly believed.
Gould applied many of the same regional analytic and statistical approaches used at EIS in his later work on radiation and public health issues.
Jay and Jane Gould papers at the Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University, New York, NY