Peggy Louise Olive

Peggy Louise Olive died on December 10th in Victoria, B.C., after being diagnosed with a rare form of lung cancer. Born in Montreal in 1948, Peggy became a radiation biologist after fretting during her teen years about the cold war and what she saw as inevitable nuclear annihilation. Her training instead led to a career of trying to improve the ability of radiation to treat cancer. She met her husband, Ralph Durand, at graduate school, and they worked together in the U.S.A. and Canada for Continue reading