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Cobalt blues : the story of Leonard Grimmett, the man behind the first Cobalt-60 unit in the United States / Peter R. Almond.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Almond, Peter R.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grimmett, Leonard.
- Physicists--United States--Biography.
- Physicists.
- Cobalt.
- History.
- Chemistry.
- Radiotherapy.
- United States.
- Radiotherapy--United States--History.
- Chemistry--United States--History.
- Cobalt--United States--History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 153 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Springer, [2013]
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781461449232
- 1461449235
- OCLC:
- 796763342
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