Publication

2013 - University of Chicago Press, Chicago, USA

Language

English

Word Count

122,250 words, Guess

Page Count

489 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139780226017945
  • ISBN-10022601794X
  • Better World Books9780226017945
  • Open LibraryOL38027463M

Classifications

  • DDC660'.2988409—DC23
  • LCCQC798.A1C743 2013

Description

A history of radioisotope development and use in America from Berkeley cyclotrons in the 1930s to the death of the Atomic Energy Commission in the 1970s.

First Sentence

At the close of World War II, the nuclear detonations over Hiroshima and Nagasaki demonstrated the devastating power of the atom.

Subjects

Topics

RadioisotopesNuclear medicineRadioisotopes, industrial applications

Places

People

E. O. LawrenceDwight EisenhowerDavid J. Lilienthal

Times

1930s–1970s

Series Statement

  • Synthesis

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