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Table 2 The early years of nuclear medicine

From: The contribution of medical physics to nuclear medicine: a physician's perspective

1934

First radioactive 128I

Enrico Fermi

Italian physicist

1901 to 1954

1936

Production of 99mTc

Emilio G. Segre

Italian physicist

1905 to 1989

1936

First therapy with 32P

John H. Lawrence

American physicist

1904 to 1991

1938

Discovery of 131I

Glenn Seaborg

American chemist

1912 to 1999

1942

Therapy of benign thyroid disease

Saul Hertz

American physician

1905 to 1950

  

Robley D. Evans

American physicist

1907 to 1995

1946

First therapy of thyroid cancer

S. M. Seidlin

American physician

1895 to 1955

  

Leo D. Marinelli

American physicist

1886 to 1995

1949

First therapy of thyroid

   
 

Carcinoma in Europe

Cuno Winkler

German physician

1919 to 2003

  

Eric E. Pochin

British physician

1909 to 1990