[2] With Frank T. Lindgren and other research associates, Gofman discovered and described three major classes of plasma lipoproteins, fat molecules that carry cholesterol in the blood.

Gofman's earliest research was in nuclear physics and chemistry, in close connection with the Manhattan Project.

[5] In his 1996 book[6] Gofman claimed that exposure to medical x-rays was responsible for about 75 percent of breast cancers in the United States.

This order of magnitude has been somehow confirmed by the increase in breast cancer incidence following mammography screening in the USA and in France.

Gofman used his low-level radiation health model to predict 333 excess cancer or leukemia deaths from the 1979 Three Mile Island accident.