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Cobalt blues : the story of Leonard Grimmett, the man behind the first Cobalt-60 unit in the United States

Title
  1. Cobalt blues : the story of Leonard Grimmett, the man behind the first Cobalt-60 unit in the United States / Peter R. Almond.
Published by
  1. New York, NY : Springer, ©2013.
Author
  1. Almond, Peter R.

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Description
  1. xvii, 153 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm
Subject
  1. Grimmett, Leonard
  2. Physicists > United States > Biography
  3. Radiotherapy > United States > History
  4. Chemistry > United States > History
  5. Cobalt > United States > History
Contents
  1. M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, 1941-1949 -- The Journey, January 29 to February 7, 1949 -- Early Life and Education, London, 1903-1929 -- Medical Physicist Part I, London, 1929-1944 -- The Unknown Years and UNESCO, Paris, 1944-1948 -- Replacing Radium, 1937-1949 -- The Arrival, Houston, February 1949 -- The Cobalt Unit, 1949-1954 -- Medical Physicist Part II, Houston, 1949-1951 -- Cobalt-60 and the Notebook -- Cobalt-60 in Perspective.
Call number
  1. JSE 16-381
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Author
  1. Almond, Peter R.
Title
  1. Cobalt blues : the story of Leonard Grimmett, the man behind the first Cobalt-60 unit in the United States / Peter R. Almond.
Imprint
  1. New York, NY : Springer, ©2013.
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Local note
  1. BIOGRAPHY. RADIOACTIVITY IN MEDICINE.
LCCN
  1. 2012945098
ISBN
  1. 9781461449232
  2. 1461449235
Research call number
  1. JSE 16-381
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