A History of Radioisotopes in Science and Medicine
by
Angela N. H. Creager
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
After World War II, the US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) began mass-producing radioisotopes, sending out nearly 64,000 shipments of radioactive materials to scientists and physicians by 1955. Even as the atomic bomb became the focus of Cold War anxiety, radioisotopes represented the government’s...