Chiropractic Ass'n of New York, Inc. v. Hilleboe

The science of genetics dates from Gregor Mendel, the Austrian monk whose experiments were published in 1865 and came to the general attention of biologists.in 1900. Not until the advent of nuclear warfare in 1945 did scientists or the public become aware of the hereditary effects of the exposure *113of the genital organs of the human body to nuclear fallout and other forms of ionizing radiation. The catastrophic effects of Hiroshima and Nagasaki brought this subject into the foreground of popular discussion, and, on the scientific side, the studies and experiments in the structure of the atom…