William Duane and the radium cow: An American contribution to an emerging atomic age
作者:
Marshall Brucer,
期刊:
Medical Physics
(WILEY Available online 1998)
卷期:
Volume 20,
issue 6
页码: 1601-1605
ISSN:0094-2405
年代: 1998
DOI:10.1118/1.596947
出版商: American Association of Physicists in Medicine
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
In 1912 many physicians considered radium a cure for cancer but few could afford it because radium cost a fortune. William Duane, Marie Curie's associate, discovered that “radium milk” (later officially named radon) was easier for physicians to use. In 1915 he built Boston's first radium “cow” and thousands of patients were treated with its “milk.” But because radon decayed with high‐energy alpha emissions, it also became the first “atom smasher.” Making radon available to nuclear scientists was one of America's major contributions to an evolving nuclear age.
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