Life Atomic: A History of Radioisotopes in Science and Medicine by Angela N.H. Creager

Life Atomic: A History of Radioisotopes in Science and Medicine

Angela N.H. Creager

512 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative medium-paced
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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 a...

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