A contribution of Józef Rotblat, a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, to the development of nuclear medicine
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Abstract
Józef Rotblat, a nuclear physicist born and educated in Poland, is the only laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize, who made a significant contribution to the development of nuclear medicine. In 1948 he went down in the annals of nuclear medicine by obtaining, with extarnal measurements, the first "image " of a function of an internal organ - thyroid gland, by registering gamma rays with a collimated Geiger counter at many points of the patient's neck and chest. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Rotblat in 1995 for organizing, together with the a British philosopher Bertrand Russell, the international, peaceful movement of scholars for the eradication of weapons of mass destruction (Pugwash) and multi-annual activity in this movement.
Keywords: nuclear medicineJózef Rotblatnuclear medicine imagingNobel Peace Prize
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