1896 BECQUEREL, Antoine Henri (1852 – 1908)
Sur les radiations émises par phosphorescence.
The discovery of radioactivity – research stimulated by Roentgen’s discovery of x rays. In 1903 Becquerel received half of the Nobel Prize in Physics 1903 "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered …
GMN 2001 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4181
1898 CURIE, Pierre (1859 – 1906); CURIE, Marie Sklodowska (1867 – 1934)
Sur une substance nouvelle radio-active, contenue dans la pechblende.
The Curies, studying the radioactivity of minerals containing uranium and thorium, isolated from pitchblend a substance which they called radium and which they showed to possess an astonishing degree of radioactivity.…
GMN 2003 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1914
1899 SJÖGREN, Tage Anton Ultimus (1859 – 1939)
Fall af epiteliom behandladt med Roentgenstraler.
In June 1899 Sjögren was the first successfully to use Roentgen rays in the treatment of cancer.
GMN 2624 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3170
1903 LONDON, Efim Semenovich (1869 – 1939); GOLDBERG, S. W.
Zur Frage der Beziehungen zwischen Becquerelstrahlen und Hautaffectionen.
Records the first successful employment of radium in the treatment of cancer.
GMN 2627 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3197
1903 PERTHES, Georg Clemens (1869 – 1927)
Ueber den Einfluss der Röntgenstrahlen auf epitheliale Gewebe, insbesondere auf das Carcinom.
Perthes was among the first to study the inhibitory effect of x rays on carcinoma; he was a pioneer in radiotherapy.
GMN 2627.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3198
1903 FREUND, Leopold (1868 – 1944)
Grundriss der gesammten Radiotherapie fuer praktische Aerzte.
The first textbook on radiation therapy. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10606 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12799
1904 SJÖGREN, Tage Anton Ultimus (1859 – 1939)
Om Röntgenbehandling af sarkom.
GMN 2630 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3212
1904 –1905 SJÖGREN, Tage Anton Ultimus (1859 – 1939)
Om Röntgenbehandling af maligna svulster.
SeeNo. 2624.
GMN 2631 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3215
1906 BERGONIÉ, Jean (1857 – 1925); TRIBONDEAU, Louis Mathieu Frédéric Adrien (1872 – 1918)
Interprétation de quelques résultats de la radiothérapie et essai de fixation d’une technique rationelle.
Bergonié-Tribondeau law, “the sensitivity of cells to radiation varies directly with the reproductive capacity of the cells and inversely with their degree of differentiation” (Dorland).
GMN 2005 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1927
1906 –1907 GRAY, Alfred Leftwich (1873 – 1932)
The treatment of malignant diseases of the bladder through suprapubic incision, with report of a case.
Radiotherapy for carcinoma of bladder.
GMN 4194.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6134
1909 LAZARUS-BARLOW, Walter Sydney (1865 – 1950)
The Croonian Lectures on radioactivity and carcinoma.
GMN 2635 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3227
1909 GUISEZ, Jean (1872 – 1944); BARCAT, Jean Jules (1875 – 1955)
Essais de traitement de quelques cas d’épithélioma de l’oesophage par les applications locales directes de radium.
Radium therapy by means of the esophagoscope.
GMN 3530 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4025
1917 FORSSELL, Carl Gustaf (1876 – 1950)
Översikt över resultaten av kräftbehandling vid Radiumhemmet i Stockholm 1910-1915.
The Stockholm method of radium treatment of cancer of the uterus, as carried out at the Radiumhemmet, Stockholm, follows the technique devised by Forssell.
GMN 6125 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7602
1921 COUTARD, Henri (1876 – 1950)
Un cas d’épithélioma spino-cellulaire de la région latérale du pharynx, avec adénopathie angulo-maxillaire, guéri depuis six mois par la röntgenthérapie.
Carcinoma of pharynx cured by the Coutard method of Röntgen therapy.
GMN 3196 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4263
1928 WIDERØE, Rolf (1902 – 1996)
Über ein neues Prinzip zur Herstellung höher Spannungen.
RF-powered linear accelerator.
GMN 2652.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3310
1932 KEYNES, Sir Geoffrey Langdon (1887 – 1982)
The radium treatment of carcinoma of the breast.
Keynes’s successes with radium in breast cancer established this method of conservative treatment. His first paper on the subject, with the same title, was published in St. Barth. Hosp. Rep., 1927, 60, 91-95.
GMN 5786 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6846
1933 CHAOUL, Henri (1887 – 1964); ADAM, Albert
Die Röntgen-Nahbestrahlung maligner Tumoren.
Chaoul therapy.
GMN 4007 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5114
1933 –1939 REGAUD, Claudius (1870 – 1940)
Considérations sur la radiothérapie des cancers cervico-uterins, d’après l’experience et les résultats acquis à l’Institut du Radium de Paris.
The Paris method of radium treatment of cancer of the uterus was devised by Regaud.
GMN 6131 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7635
1939 GILBERT, René
Radiotherapy in Hodgkin’s disease (malignant granulomatosis). Anatomic and clinical foundations; governing principles; results.
Gilbert was among the first to achieve durable responses to radiotherapy in Hodgkin’s disease.
GMN 3787.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4696
1940 KERST, Donald William (1911 – 1993)
Acceleration of electrons by magnetic induction.
Betatron. Continued as Kerst, "The acceleration of elecrons by magnetic induction," Phys. Rev., 60 (1941) 47-52. Digital facsimile of the 1941 paper at this link.
GMN 2010.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3348
1942 HERTZ, Saul (1905 – 1950); ROBERTS, A
Application of radioactive iodine in therapy of Graves’s disease.
GMN 3853 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4889
1945 MCMILLAN, Edwin Mattison (1907 – 1991)
The synchrotron: a proposed high energy particle accelerator.
In 1951 McMillan shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Glenn Theodore Seaborg "for their discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements."
GMN 2659.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3358
1946 ALVAREZ, Luis Walter (1911 – 1988)
The design of a proton linear accelerator.
Linear ion accelerator. In 1968 Alvarez received the Nobel Prize in Physics "for his decisive contributions to elementary particle physics, in particular the discovery of a large number of resonance states, made possi…
GMN 2659.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3361
1953 GRAY, Louis Harold (1905 – 1965); ET AL
The concentration of oxygen dissolved in tissues at the time of irradiation as a factor in radiotherapy.
The sensitivity of tumour cells to x rays shown to be much enhanced when irradiated in a well-oxygenated medium. With A. D. Conger, M. Ebert, S. Hornsey, and O. C. A. Scott.
GMN 2660.6 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3384
1963 FOWLER, J. F.; ET AL
Pre-therapeutic experiments with the fast neutron beam from the Medical Research Council cyclotron. A symposium.
GMN 2660.15 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3403
1965 DOLL, Sir William Richard Shaboe (1912 – 2005); BROWN, William Michael Court (1918 – 1968)
Mortality from cancer and other causes after radiotherapy for ankylosing spondylitis.
GMN 7790 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9962
2013 CREAGER, Angela N. H. (1963 – )
Life atomic: A history of radioisotopes in science and medicine.
GMN 9336 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11518
