artificial radioactivity
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Dr. Lawrence and his ever-changing army of co-workers did most of their work on artificial radioactivity and transmutation of elements with an 85-ton magnet.
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The most obvious application of artificial radioactivity which can be foreseen is in the medicinal field.
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The story concerned University of California's Ernest Orlando Lawrence, No. 1 U. S. experimenter in artificial radioactivity, whose 85-ton electromagnet frequently makes scientific news.
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Positrons have now been produced at the rate of 30,000 per second by gamma rays, and the Curie-Joliots of Paris observed them shooting out of light-weight elements in their first experiments with artificial radioactivity.
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Lawrence replied defensively that “the radio-sodium experiments were instigated by me alone,” adding, “I did suggest looking for artificial radioactivity this way and actively supervised the experiments.”
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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