radium connection

[Lester Slaback <Lester.Slaback@NIST.GOV>]

The Philadelphia meeting had an interesting talk on the M. Curie -
Philadelphia connection.
FYI the following site has some interesting data on the NIST - M. Curie
connection.  Fortunately we don't have some of the other attributes of the
Philadelphia connection, e.g., Lansdown (sp?).  But the 62 yr old,
glass-encased Hönigschmid radium sources are an interesting source to
contemplate.  :-)

But more of interest is the historical linkage to some of our standards as
discussed here.
Go to .....
http://physics.nist.gov/GenInt/Curie/main.html

Disclaimer:  the above are the personal musings of the author, and do not
represent any past, present, or future position of NIST, the U.S. government,
or anyone else who might think that they are in a position of authority. 
Lester Slaback, Jr.  [Lester.Slaback@NIST.GOV] 
NBSR Health Physics 
Center for Neutron Research 
NIST
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