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RE: First Radiation Victim?
Title: First Radiation Victim?
J.
Newell Stannard, in Radioactivity: A History, DOE/RL/01830-T59, 1988, published
by Office of Science and Technical Information, has a couple of places (Vol. I,
p.17 and Vol. I, p.70, Table 1.4) the information that an arthritis patient died
because of Ra-224 injections in 1912. Stannard cites C. W. Mays, 1980,
Personal communication, Tables prepared for the occasion of Dr. Spiess's 60th
birthday celebration in Munich, April 13, 1980. Stannard has a
considerable discussion in the same chapter on the radium dial painters, the
Thorotrast patients, the Peteosthor patients, and academic and laboratory
research on radium, but does not appear to discuss the nasal irradiation during
and after WWII.
Radioactivity, in 3 volumes and around 2000 pages, is
still available. Amazon shows it at $97.50 for the three volumes and
available used at $71.45. Amazon shows Battelle Press as the
publisher.
Best
regards.
Jim
Dukelow
Pacific Northwest National
Laboratory
Richland, WA
These
comments are mine and have not been reviewed and/or approved by my management or
by the U.S. Department of Energy.
For the history books, can anyone provide a medically
verifiable answer
to the following
question(preferably with reliable documented reference):-
Who was the first reported person to die from
exposure to ionizing radiation?
Clive Greenstock
AECL, Chalk River
greenstockc@aecl.ca