Isotope networks: Training, sales and publications, 1946-1965
Metadatos
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Herran, NéstorEditorial
Universidad de Granada
Materia
Aplicaciones industriales de isótopos Enseñanza Publicaciones Mercado de isótopos Historia de la Ciencia comparada Industrial applications of isotopes Training Publications Market for isotopes Comparative history of science
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2009Referencia bibliográfica
Herran, Néstor. «Isotope networks : training, sales and publications, 1946-1965». Dynamis: Acta Hispanica ad Medicinae Scientiarumque Historiam Illustrandam, 2009, Vol. 29, p. 285-306, https://raco.cat/index.php/Dynamis/article/view/136838.
Resumen
The aim of this paper is to provide an assessment of the spread of isotope-related
techniques in Western Europe and the USA in the two first decades after World War II, by focusing
on structural features. In particular, I analyse three major components of the European
«isotope industry»: radioisotope distribution networks, the establishment of training sites and
publications in which isotopes played some role as the object of study or research tools. This
study leads to an assessment of the importance of industrial applications of isotopes in this
period, in relation to biomedical ones, and provides with a transnational comparison in terms
of productivity in material resources, workforce and knowledge.