Abstract
HEALTH physics is a new name applied to a newly developed and specialized branch of radiology. The name health physics has been used on the Manhattan Project during the war to refer to a science which has been developed and devoted to the study of penetrating radiations and the prevention of radiation exposure of personnel. Thousands of persons have been employed on the atomic energy projects at the University of Chicago, Clinton National Laboratory, Hanford Works, and elsewhere, who have worked with radioactive materials equivalent to millions of times the total amount of curies of radium in all the hospitals and laboratories of the world. In spite of all this hazardous radiation, no one associated with any of these three projects has been injured by radiation in so far as can be determined by the health physicists, millions of instrument measurements, and by the medical departments from very thorough ...
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