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Hall EJ. 100 Years of Radiation Research in the Footsteps of Failla. Radiat Res. 2017;doi: 10.1667/RR001CC.
Hall, E. J. (2017). 100 Years of Radiation Research in the Footsteps of Failla. Radiation research, . https://doi.org/10.1667/RR001CC
Hall, Eric J. "100 Years of Radiation Research in the Footsteps of Failla." Radiation research vol. (2017). doi: https://doi.org/10.1667/RR001CC
Hall EJ. 100 Years of Radiation Research in the Footsteps of Failla. Radiat Res. 2017 Jan 31; doi: 10.1667/RR001CC. Epub 2017 Jan 31. PMID: 28140788.
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Radiat Res. 2017 Jan 31; doi: 10.1667/RR001CC. Epub 2017 Jan 31.

100 Years of Radiation Research in the Footsteps of Failla.

Radiation research

Eric J Hall

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  1. Center for Radiological Research, Columbia University, New York.

PMID: 28140788 DOI: 10.1667/RR001CC

Abstract

Gioacchino Failla was initially appointed to operate the radon plant at Memorial Hospital in 1916. What to most people would have been a part-time temporary position was to him a career. He was not satisfied to simply fabricate radon seeds, he wanted to understand the physics and biology of the radiation emitted by the progeny of radium. His was not the first medical physics group in the United States, though it was one of the earliest, but it was the first to put such emphasis on the biological effects. After more than 28 years at Memorial Hospital, Failla moved his research group to Columbia University Medical Center and his pioneering work, blending physics and biology, has continued to date at Columbia by those that he trained or inspired, under three directors that followed him.

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