Tales from the Atomic Age

The following "Tales from the Atomic Age" originally appeared in the Health Physics Society Newsletter. Although they are written in a story format, I did my best to ensure the accuracy of all the information contained in them. - Paul Frame

• Alsos and the Nazi Thorium
• Discovery of Francium
• Fermi Strikes Gold and Hevesy Invents Neutron Activation Analysis
• Four Tales of George de Hevesy
• František Behounek and the Burst Balloon
• How the Curie Came to Be
• In the Groove - and other stories about radium hounds
• It Belonged to Wollan - a story about Ernest Wollan, the first "Health Physicist"
• It Came Out of Niels Bohr's Nuclear Well
• Jachymov: Cradle of the Atomic Age
• James Acord: Artist-in-Residence of the Atomic Age
• Pigs in Uniform
• Radioactive Curative Devices and Spas - a story about radioactive quack cures
• Return of the Radium Hound
• Robley Evans in the Wild West
• The Legend of Émil H. Grubbé
• The Tale of the Hanford Sheep
• U-234 - the story of the German U-boat U-234
• Wilhelm Rontgen and the Invisible Light
• William Crookes and the Spectral Visitor
• William Crookes and the Turbulent Luminous Sea - a story about the spinthariscope