Interview with Gail Adams, [videorecording] / recorded by the American Association of Physicists in Medicine History Committee ; 1990 July 5.

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Interview with Gail Adams, [videorecording] / recorded by the American Association of Physicists in Medicine History Committee ; 1990 July 5.

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Topics discussed include the early use of the betatron to treat cancer at the University of Illinois in 1948; his work with Robert Spencer Stone in developing the synchrotron for medical use at the University of California in the early 1950s; his work in radiation dosimetry; his development and operation of the graduate program in radiation physics at the University of Oklahoma; licensing and certification; the people who influenced his life; and awards.

1 videocassette (103 min.) : sd., col ; 1/2 in.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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