I was diagnosed with
I was diagnosed with Graves’ disease, an illness of the thyroid gland. Instead of surgery, I was given radiation treatment. Gail Devers
Radiation
The radiation of radium
The radiation of radium was contagious-Contagious like a persistent scent or a disease. It was impossible for an object, a plant, an animal or a person to be left near a tube of radium without immediately acquiring a notable activity which a sensitive apparatus could detect. Eve Curie
[From uranium] there are
[From uranium] there are present at least two distinct types of radiation one that is very readily absorbed, which will be termed for convenience the α radiation, and the other of a more penetrative character, which will be termed the β radiation. Ernest Rutherford
From the beginning of
From the beginning of the Radiation Laboratory, I have had the rare good fortune of being in the center of a group of men of high ability, enthusiastic and completely devoted to scientific pursuits. Ernest Lawrence
In the Radiation Laboratory
In the Radiation Laboratory we count it a privilege to do everything we can to assist our medical colleagues in the application of these new tools to the problems of human suffering. Ernest Lawrence
My girlfriend said, Just
My girlfriend said, Just buy me something crazy and expensive, something I don’t even need! So, I signed her up for radiation treatment. Emo Philips
Some months ago we
Some months ago we discovered that certain light elements emit positrons under the action of alpha particles. Our latest experiments have shown a very striking fact: when an aluminium foil is irradiated on a polonium preparation [alpha ray emitter], the emission of positrons does not cease immediately when the active preparation is removed: the foil … Read more
Evil is the radiation
Evil is the radiation of the human consciousness in certain transitional positions. It is not actually the sensual world that is amere appearance; what is so is the evil of it, which, admittedly, is what constitutes the sensual world in our eyes. Franz Kafka
Self-control means wanting to
Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence. Franz Kafka
It\’s much easier to
It’s much easier to go through something and deal with it without being under a microscope… It was stressful. I was terrified getting the chemo. It’s not pleasant. And the radiation is not pleasant. Farrah Fawcett