RECENTLY the recording of coincidences between Geiger counters has become of considerable interest, and several experimental arrangements have been described for this purpose. 1 A common property of ...

And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac: September 30, 1882, 136 years ago today, and COUNTING ... the day the future physicist Johannes Wilhelm "Hans" Geiger was born in Germany. Geiger ...

The issue of nuclear radiation has resurfaced in the minds of many people today. The news we hear in the media encourages us to undertake extra checks in the areas where we live. The latest breaking ...

A /*breast cancer*/ can be so small early on that it can't be felt, only seen on mammography. Right now, the only way to locate a cancer that cannot be seen is for doctors to stick a thin wire into ...

A METHOD for the assay of tritium has been described by White, Campbell and Payne 1, who convert radioactive water into methane by means of aluminium carbide and then ‘count’ the methane in the ...