Marie Curie: In the Laboratory and on the Battlefield. Lawrence Badash.
by Badash, Lawrence; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2004Article 55Science. Publisher: Physics Today, 2003ISSN: 1522-3264;.Subject(s): Becquerel | Chemists | Curie | Curie | Discoveries in science | Physicists | Radioactivity | Radiology -- Medical | Radium | Women physicists | Women scientists | World War (1914-1918) -- Medical aspects | X-raysDDC classification: 050 Summary: "For nearly a century, physicians have routinely taken x-ray pictures of broken bones or wounds that contain foreign solid materials. So powerful is this diagnostic tool that not to employ it would seem almost medieval. Thus it comes as something of a surprise to recognize that, although there were numerous small-scale medical applications almost immediately after Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen's discovery of x rays at the end of 1895, it took the carnage of World War I, two decades later, to make such radiography widespread." (PHYSICS TODAY) This article discusses the early history of x rays and examines Marie Curie's contribution to their medical use in diagnosing battlefield wounds during World War I.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Marie Curie: In the Laboratory and on the Battlefield, July 2003; pp. 37-43.
"For nearly a century, physicians have routinely taken x-ray pictures of broken bones or wounds that contain foreign solid materials. So powerful is this diagnostic tool that not to employ it would seem almost medieval. Thus it comes as something of a surprise to recognize that, although there were numerous small-scale medical applications almost immediately after Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen's discovery of x rays at the end of 1895, it took the carnage of World War I, two decades later, to make such radiography widespread." (PHYSICS TODAY) This article discusses the early history of x rays and examines Marie Curie's contribution to their medical use in diagnosing battlefield wounds during World War I.
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