Becquerel Day

[David Scherer <scherer@uiuc.edu>]

The following is cross-posted from the nucmed list (nucmed@largnet.uwo.ca):

Dave Scherer
scherer@uiuc.edu

>    *********  One Hundred Years of Radioactivity  *************
>
>Sunday 1st March 1896
>     Becquerel's accidental discovery of radioactivity
>
>Monday 2nd March 1896
>     Becquerel performed experiments to confirm his findings
>     Oral presentation of the discovery to the French Academy of Sciences
>
>Within 10 days paper published in 'Comptes Rendus'
>
>How can modern research compete with that?
>
>Here is a toast to Henri Becquerel who, more than anyone, is responsible
>for the science that keeps us all in work and which benefits millions of
>patients each year.
>
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>Richard Lawson, Nuclear Medicine Department,
>Manchester Royal Infirmary, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9WL, UK
>Tel:    0161 276 4785    (International +44 161 276 4785)
>Fax:    0161 273 5248    (International +44 161 273 5248)
>E-mail: Richard.Lawson@man.ac.uk
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