Badash, Lawrence,
Marie Curie: In the Laboratory and on the Battlefield. Lawrence Badash. - Physics Today, 2003. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2004. Article 55, Science, 1522-3264; .
Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2004. 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.
1522-3264;
Becquerel
Curie
Curie
Chemists
Discoveries in science
Physicists
Radioactivity
Radiology--Medical
Radium
Women physicists
Women scientists
World War (1914-1918)--Medical aspects
X-rays
AC1.S5
050
Marie Curie: In the Laboratory and on the Battlefield. Lawrence Badash. - Physics Today, 2003. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2004. Article 55, Science, 1522-3264; .
Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2004. 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.
1522-3264;
Becquerel
Curie
Curie
Chemists
Discoveries in science
Physicists
Radioactivity
Radiology--Medical
Radium
Women physicists
Women scientists
World War (1914-1918)--Medical aspects
X-rays
AC1.S5
050