IN A world beset with seemingly continuous political crisis, attention is unfortunately diverted
from perhaps the most serious problem facing humanity over the next few generations; that …

This paper offers some suggestions to those who plan to establish laboratories for the use of
radioisotopes in an agricultural research program, and who will have need to perform a …

In the preface the author states that" a primary purpose of this volume is to bring home to the
student and investigator an appreciation and understanding of how radio-isotopes can fit …

It HA5 become the practice in this Society to set aside in the General Session time for a
review of some facet of agronJmy or of some broad topic of significance to agronomists. The …

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The chapters of this book are based on papers selected from those presented at the Geneva
Conference on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy held in 1955. Part I deals with the general …

I rom research laboratories to farmers' fields, nuclear techniques play an increasingly
valuable and often unique role in agricultural research and development. They are used in a …

A simplified description of atom structure is given, leading to the term" radioactive isotope".
Some of the properties of the principal radiations emitted by radioactive elements are …

ROM time to time during recent years researches have been done at The University of North
Carolina (Chapel Hill), in which radioactive isotopes, both natural" and reactor-made," were …

S. described the uses to which radioisotopes are being put in industry, physical chemistry,
biochemistry, zoology and medicine. Of the 600 radioisotopes so far discovered, a hundred …