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1947: Medicine
Outstanding advances in medicine during the year 1947 centered chiefly about the application of nuclear physics to medical problems. Radioactive materials were employed in medicine not only to treat certain conditions susceptible to irradiation but also to study the mechanisms and the nature of...
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