Geschichte der Strahlenforschung,Teil 1:Pandoras Buchse.Die Zeit vor dem Zweiten Weltkrieg(Uber Strahlung,Radioaktivitat und Strahlenschutz).Aus dem Schwedischen von Traute Roedler-Vogelsang(History of Radiation Research,Part 1:Pandora's Box.Period u

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Did you know that the great explosion of the volcano Krakatoa(1883)was instrumental in understanding certain effects of the nuclear weapon tests in the Marshall Islands in the 1950s? That war correspondent and later Prime Minister,Sir Winston Churchill,complained a mere 20 months after the discovery of x rays that because of a defect in an x-ray machine the life of a soldier could not be saved-at the foot of the Himalayan mountains? That the term nuclear fission was inspired by the technical term for bacterial cell division? This and more you can learn from volume I of Bo Lindell's enjoyable and informative trilogy on the history of radiation research.Published in Swedish in 1996,volume I,which bears the subtitle Pandora's Box,has now expertly been translated into German by Traute Roedler-Vogelsang,known to all of you as the managing editor of Radiation and Environmental Biophysics