Historical Issues/Applications

The following health physics questions have been answered by an expert and approved by our editors for inclusion in our "Ask the Experts" feature. Click on the question to see the answer.

Q344	–	Radium Dial Painters
Q498	–	X rays from old equipment
Q516	–	Selling a Revigator
Q535	–	Did Marie Curie die of a radiation overexposure?
Q563	–	Radium dial painters
Q654	–	Discovery of gamma rays
Q757	–	ICRP, John Lawrence, and sterilization
Q768	–	Nickname for Pierre Curie
Q901	–	Why are shielding containers called pigs?
Q1113	–	Is the curie named after Pierre or Marie?
Q1131	–	HP PhD jobs
Q1209	–	How was the scientific method developed?
Q1215	–	Old camera lens
Q1272	–	Who discovered radiation?
Q1298	–	First to give radiation protection advice
Q1344	–	Old survey instrument
Q1376	–	Radiation to cure cancer
Q1388	–	The Radium Spa
Q1469	–	Manhattan Project nuclear physicists
Q1475	–	Dials painted with cesium-137
Q1526	–	Ultraviolet and ozone units
Q1550	–	Radiation symbol
Q1826	–	Early radiation workers
Q2561	–	Origin of "health physics"
Q3210	–	Radioactive coins
Q3562	–	Military gauges with radium-226
Q3909	–	Contamination of items from Kiev
Q4279	–	German uranium-234 boat
Q4875	–	Symbol for equivalent dose
Q5844	–	Old x-ray machine
Q6110	–	Radon generator
Q6916	–	World War II police gorget
Q7134	–	Madame Curie
Q7667	–	Old watch parts
Q8103	–	Radiation safety posters
Q8186	–	Radiation terms

The following websites may also be useful:

			Historical Instrument Collection (ORAU)
			History of Radiation (Idaho State University)
			Marie Curie (AIP)
			Radioactive Quack Cures (ORAU)
			The Curie (ORAU)