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The Glaser Archive

Zorach R. Glaser RF/Microwave Bioeffects Archive

A researcher specializing in radio frequency and microwave bioeffects.

Dr. Zorach R. Glaser ("Zory") specialized in the biological effects of radio frequency and microwave radiation. He compiled his first bibliography of the field in 1971, following his PhD, while studying the effects of non-ionizing radiation exposure on military personnel.

Who was Dr. Glaser?

U.S. Navy
Beginning as an electronics technician, he rose through Radiation Medicine Program Assistant in the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, to Electromagnetic Radiation Program Manager at the Naval Medical Research and Development Command, to Officer-in-Charge and Senior Scientist of the Non-Ionizing Radiation Bioeffects Laboratory.
NIOSH
RF/Microwave Radiation Criteria Document Manager.
FDA
Executive Secretary of the Technical Electronic Product Radiation Safety Standards Committee, and Associate Director of the Division of Life Sciences at the National Center for Medical Devices and Radiological Health.

He compiled and updated the bibliography distributed through the Bioelectromagnetics Society newsletter from 1971 to 1981 (catalogued as ERIC ED286762).

He earned a Master of Public Health from Johns Hopkins University in 1990.

Provenance

Custody of the original collection

Dr. Glaser personally gave his collection to Professor Magda Havas in 2010. She digitizes and hosts it on her own websites (magdahavas.com and zoryglaser.com).

Professor Havas is a faculty member at Trent University; this is a fact about her, not about where the collection is catalogued.

The archive is not a catalogued Trent University Library & Archives holding — Trent's own archival systems contain no accession record for it.

Shield Your Body’s role

Separately, Shield Your Body has digitized and structured its own copies of these public materials for this research hub.

In April 2010, Havas received a scanned copy of the 1971/1972 bibliography, tracked Dr. Glaser down by phone, and spoke with him the next day. He described having produced nine supplements citing "well over 6,000 studies." Unable to find an institution willing to take the collection, he gave it to Havas, who drove it back from the Baltimore area in a rented U-Haul.

By Havas’s own first-hand 2010 account the collection filled roughly 45–50 boxes (a later secondary account gives a differing figure; the sources do not reconcile).

How the archive was digitized

  1. Source documents are processed with optical character recognition (OCR).
  2. The raw OCR text is cleaned up with a large language model.
  3. Each result is assigned a confidence score.
  4. Results are reviewed through human vetting.

Because many originals are decades-old documents, OCR quality varies — the source archive itself notes this. Digitized text may contain scanning artifacts.

Usage in the literature

The Glaser bibliography and Dr. Glaser’s work appear in the wider record:

  • Catalogued by ERIC, OSTI, and DTIC as a standalone bibliographic resource.
  • Listed as a physician resource by Physicians for Safe Technology (mdsafetech.org).
  • Dr. Glaser authored a chapter in the Routledge / Marcel Dekker Froehlich/Kent Encyclopedia of Telecommunications (Volume 15).
  • Cited by Magda Havas in a 2018 written comment to the U.S. National Toxicology Program (NTP) Technical Review Panel.

No citation of the bibliography in a mainstream peer-reviewed biomedical journal was found. This reflects the limits of the search, not proof that none exists.

The archive at a glance

3,173
Indexed studies
4,011
Digitized source documents
3,926
Source documents with cleaned full text
1,361
Source documents with extracted diagrams

What’s in the collection

Breakdown of the 3,173 indexed Glaser studies by document type, test subject, and decade. Coverage is uneven and gaps are shown openly.

By document type

  • Journal article2,058
  • Technical report517
  • Conference paper279
  • Final report118
  • Unspecified37
  • Government report31
  • Book chapter28
  • Unknown27
  • Meeting minutes18
  • Editorial14
  • Information bulletin13
  • Thesis11
  • Review10
  • Memo10
  • Memorandum1
  • Resolution1

By test subject

By decade

  • 1870s1
  • 1890s1
  • 1920s14
  • 1930s101
  • 1940s85
  • 1950s209
  • 1960s646
  • 1970s1,507
  • 1980s220
  • 1990s6
  • 2000s4
  • 2010s2
  • 2020s1
  • Undated376

Ways to explore the archive

1,361
Studies with diagrams
Glaser studies whose source document has extracted figures.
517
Technical reports
Technical reports in the collection.
10
Reviews
Review documents in the collection.
Earliest records

Earliest records in the collection — not a continuous run.

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Frequently asked questions

What is the Glaser Archive?

It is a collection of radio frequency and microwave bioeffects research — bibliographic materials and digitized historical documents originally assembled by Dr. Zorach R. Glaser. It is one of several independent research collections presented on this hub, not the whole of it.

Who was Dr. Glaser?

Dr. Zorach R. Glaser ("Zory") was a researcher specializing in the biological effects of radio frequency and microwave radiation. He held roles across the U.S. Navy, NIOSH, and the FDA, compiled his first bibliography of the field in 1971, and updated the bibliography distributed through the Bioelectromagnetics Society newsletter from 1971 to 1981. He earned a Master of Public Health from Johns Hopkins University in 1990.

How was it digitized?

Source documents are processed with OCR, cleaned up with a large language model, confidence-scored, and reviewed through human vetting. Because many originals are decades old, OCR quality varies and the digitized text may contain scanning artifacts.

Is this archive complete?

The Glaser Archive is one of several independent research collections on this hub, so it does not represent the entire body of research presented here. Within the collection itself, coverage is uneven: some documents have full cleaned text or extracted diagrams and others do not, and the current counts are shown live elsewhere on this page rather than stated as a fixed total.

What kind of research does the Glaser Archive contain?

The archive gathers radio frequency and microwave bioeffects research spanning the late nineteenth century through 2020, with the heaviest concentration in mid-twentieth-century military and government work. Its documents include technical reports, reviews, and journal articles covering whole-body exposure, the nervous system, cardiovascular effects, and cellular biology.

Archive content last updated July 2, 2026.