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Between Medicine and Industry: Medical Physics and the Rise of the Radioisotope 1945–65.

This article explores the development of clinical uses for the artificial radioisotope between 1945 and 1965. As part of the broader nuclear enterprise, the radioisotope programme enjoyed powerful political and financial support from the British government. In 1945, medical uses for artificial radio...

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Published in:Contemporary British History Vol. 20; no. 1; pp. 1 - 36
Main Author: Kraft, Alison
Format: Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Mar2006
Subjects:
Radioisotopes
Radioactivity
Imaging systems
Medicine
British politics & government
United Kingdom
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