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Marie Curie and the NBS Radium Standards, Bibliography

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Brown, A., The Neutron and the Bomb; A Biography of Sir James Chadwick, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1997.

Dorsey, N.E., Physics of Radioactivity, 223 pages, Williams and Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1921.

Cochrane, R.C., Measures for Progress: A History of the National Bureau of Standards, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, 1966.

Collé, R., Hutchinson, J.M.R., and Unterweger, M.P., "The NIST Primary Radon-222 Measurement System," Jour. Res. NIST, 95, 155 (1990).

Curie, E., Madame Curie, translated by Vincent Sheean, Doubleday, Doran and Co., Garden City, 1938.

Curie, M., Pierre Curie; With Autobiographical Notes by Marie Curie, Translated by Charlotte and Vernon Kellogg, with introduction by Mrs. William Brown Meloney, Dover, New York, 1923.

Curtiss, L.F., "A Projection Electroscope for Standardizing Radium Preparations," Jour. Optical Society of America, 16, 363 (1928).

Curtiss, L.F., Introduction to Neutron Physics, 370 pages, D. Van Nostrand, Princeton, 1959.

Harding, J.E., Schwebel, A., and Stockmann, L.L., "Report on the Determination of Small Amounts of Radium in Solution," Journal of the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists, May 1958.

Mann, W.B., A Handbook of Radioactivity Measurements Procedures, NCRP Report 58, 2nd Edition, NCRP Publications, Bethesda, 1985.

Mann, W.B., Was There a Fifth Man? Quintessential Recollections, Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1982.

Mann, W.B., Ayres, R.L., and Garfinkel, S.B., Radioactivity and Its Measurement, 2nd Edition, Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1980.

Mann, W.B., Rytz, A., and Spernol, A., Radioactivity Measurements, Principles and Practice, Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1988.

Mann, W.B. and Seliger, H.H., Preparation, Maintenance and Applications of Standards of Radioactivity, NBS Circular 594, Washington, DC, June, 1958.

Mehra, J., The Solvay Conferences on Physics, D. Reidel Publishing Co., Dordrecht, Holland, 1975.

Mould, R.F., A Century of X-Rays and Radioactivity in Medicine, Institute of Physics Publishing, Bristol, 1993.

Musée et des Archives de l'Institut du Radium, Mme. Monique Bordry, Directeur, 11, Ru Pierre et Marie Curie, 75248 Paris CEDEX 05, France.

Rutherford, E., Radioactive Transformations, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1906.

Rutherford, E., The Newer Alchemy, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1936.

Soddy, F., The Chemistry of the Radio-Elements, Longmans - Green, London, 1911.

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Williams, R.C., Preliminary Note on Observations Made on Physical Condition of Persons Engaged in Measuring Radium Preparations, Reprint No. 889 from the Public Health Records, December 21, 1923, U.S. Public Health Service, Washington, DC 1924.

Created August 14, 2009, Updated September 26, 2016