A Survey of the Uses of Atomic Energy in Contemporary Medicine

摘要

Before we can discuss the medical uses of atomic forces, we must review some of the modern concepts of the atom and the sources of its energy. We will not do this in great detail for several reasons, and the chief of these is that I am not qualified to do so. Your program chairman probably knew that when she invited me to tackle this broad and extremely complex subject. I assumed that she wished me to discuss atomic energy and its biological and medical effects in general terms and by drawing familiar analogies, or I would have declined the invitation. Therefore, those of you who came for a comprehensive discussion with technical, mathematical substantiation of all the theories are urged to spend the rest of this hour in gentle slumber, or in absorbing atomic energy from our glorious Colorado sun.