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Radioactivity in America: growth and decay of a science

Lawrence Badash
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • Illustrations (page xi)
  • Preface (page xiii)
  • The Radioactive Decay Series (page xvi)
  • 1 European Origins (page 5)
  • 2 American Reception of Radioactivity (page 17)
  • 3 First Research Efforts (page 33)
  • 4 Boltwood and McCoy (page 59)
  • 5 Uranium-Radium Genetics (page 74)
  • 6 Useful Decay Series Relationships (page 89)
  • 7 The Parent of Radium (page 99)
  • 8 Thorium Genetics (page 111)
  • 9 Radioactivity in Medicine (page 125)
  • 10 The Radium Business (page 135)
  • 11 Chemical Maturity: Radium Data (page 152)
  • 12 Chemical Maturity: Other Radioelements (page 165)
  • 13 Toward the Group Displacement Laws (page 181)
  • 14 The Suicidal Success of Chemistry (page 194)
  • 15 Physical Investigations: Alpha Particles in the Second Dozen Years of Radioactivity (page 214)
  • 16 Physical Investigations: Beta and German Radiations in the Second Dozen Years of Radioactivity (page 229)
  • 17 Physical Investigations: Completing the Picture of the Second Dozen Years of Radioactivity (page 244)
  • Conclusion (page 259)
  • Abbreviations (page 275)
  • Notes (page 277)
  • Index (page 315)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
TC 21.4 (Oct. 1980): 695-697 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3104116
AHR 85.3 (Jun. 1980): 728-729 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1855104
ISIS 72.1 (Mar. 1981): 116-117 http://www.jstor.org/stable/231203
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Published: c1979
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780801821875 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Science & Technology
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