2003/09/08 by Dale R. Corson · 1 citation
Medicine · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Treatments #Melanoma and MAPK Pathways #PI3K/AKT/mTOR signaling in cancer
paper · doi:10.1021/cen-v081n036.p158
openalex publication_date 2003/09/08 · openalex created_date 2022/05/12 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30
IN 1938-4O, I SERVED TWO YEARS AS a postdoctoral fellow in the Radiation Laboratory of the University of California, Berkeley, helping construct a new 60-inch cyclotron that produced 32-MeV α-particles. With construction nearing completion, the laboratory staff met in a special session one evening in the fall of 1939 to discuss experiments designed to exploit the newly available high-energy particles. In the course of the discussion, Emilio Segrè pointed out the obvious fact that once one looked at the Periodic Table of the Elements, adding an α-particle to a bismuth nucleus of atomic number 83 could produce a nucleus of element 85, which had been until then missing in the periodic table. The next day, Robert Cornog, a graduate student colleague who possessed a small piece of bismuth, and I bombarded the shiny metal for a short time with the 32-MeV α-particles. I had a nearby laboratory with instrumentation I had built, anticipating ...