History of Radiation and Radiation Protection

Essays and items of interest dealing with the history of radiation protection, radiation and health physics.

General Areas of History

• Bureau of Atomic Tourism (Atomic Museums)
• The Health Physics Historical Museum Collection (ORAU - Dr. Paul Frame)
• Radiation Oncology - A Project Of Radiology Centennial Inc
• History of radiology
• History of nuclear medicine
• The First Fifty Years of Radiation Protection by R. Kathren and P. Ziemer
• First Half Century of Radiation Protection Timeline
• A Brief Chronology of Radiation and Protection by J. Ellsworth Weaver III 1994,1995
• Radiation Warning Symbol by Paul Frame
• Radiation Warning Symbol Up-date by Paul Frame
• The Discovery Of Radioactivity: The Dawn of the Nuclear Age
• Discovery of electron
• Discovery of gamma ray
• Rays and Particles - Brief History of Radiation
• Radioactivity and Radiation at 100 years old
• Re-creating the Curie Experiment
• Atomic History and the First Reactor (ANL)
• A Short History of Nuclear Regulation, 1946-1999
• Radiation Protection at EPA: The First 30 Years (pdf)
• CRCPD History (US Agreement States)
• Madame Marie Curie and the The U.S. Curie Standard
• Atomic Bomb related photos- Hiroshima, Japan - 1945
• History of Physics References
• History of Uranium mining
• History of food irradiation

Notable People in the History of Radiation

• Figures in Radiation History¹
• Historical Figures
• The Electronic Nobel Museum
• A Philatelic History of Radiology
• Antoine Henri Becquerel
• Rolf Sievert
• Louis Harold Gray F.R.S. 1905 - 1965
• W. C. Roentgen The Discovery of the X-ray
• Glenn Seaborg
• Marie Sklodowska Curie: The Woman Who Opened the Nuclear Age
• Madame Marie Curie (Curie Inst. in French)
• Marie Curie Découvre L'Amérique
• Curie, Marie (1867-1934)
• Madame Marie Curie
• Madame Marie Curie
• Madame Marie Curie
• Albert Einstein

Footnotes

¹ In 1994, the Health Physics Society produced a calendar for the centennial commemoration of the discovery of X-rays (1895) and Radioactivity (1896). This calendar contained profiles of some of the pioneers in the field of Health Physics and Radiation Science. A special thanks to Paul Frame of ORAU and the other members of the HPS Historical Committee for their work on this calendar. (note: photos will be added as they become available.)

Pioneers in Health Physics Index (Profiles from centennial Calendar at MSU)

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