Cobalt blues : the story of Leonard Grimmett, the man behind the first Cobalt-60 unit in the United States / Peter R. Almond.

New York, NY : Springer, [2013]

xvii, 153 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, 1941-1949 -- The Journey, January 29 to February 7, 1949 -- Early Life and Education, London, 1903-1929 -- Medical Physicist Part I, London, 1929-1944 -- The Unknown Years and UNESCO, Paris, 1944-1948 -- Replacing Radium, 1937-1949 -- The Arrival, Houston, February 1949 -- The Cobalt Unit, 1949-1954 -- Medical Physicist Part II, Houston, 1949-1951 -- Cobalt-60 and the Notebook -- Cobalt-60 in Perspective.

Includes bibliographical references and index.