| LC control no. | n 50039949 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Lawrence, John H. (John Hundale), 1904-1991 |
| Variant(s) | Lawrence, John Hundale, 1904- |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | Berkeley (Calif.) |
| Birth date | 1904-01-07 |
| Death date | 1991-09-07 |
| Place of birth | Canton (S.D.) |
| Place of death | Berkeley (Calif.) |
| Field of activity | Nuclear medicine |
| Affiliation | University of California (1868-1952) University of California, Berkeley Donner Laboratory Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory University of California (System). Regents |
| Profession or occupation | Nuclear physicists Nuclear medicine physicians Authors |
| Found in | Advances in biological and medical physics. Lawrence, John H. Radioactive isotopes and nuclear radiations in the treatment of cancer, 1956: title page (John H. Lawrence and Cornelius Tobias) Lawrence, John H. Radioisotopes and radiation, 1964: title page (John H. Lawrence ...) Recent advances in nuclear medicine, 1974: title page (edited by John H. Lawrence) Wikipedia, viewed September 15, 2022: John H. Lawrence (John Hundale Lawrence (January 7, 1904 -- September 7, 1991) was an American physicist and physician best known for pioneering the field of nuclear medicine ... John Hundale Lawrence was born in Canton, South Dakota ... He attended college at the University of South Dakota before getting his M.D. degree from Harvard Medical School ... He had a long-term association with the University of California, Berkeley and worked at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. There he discovered treatments for leukemia and polycythemia ... in 1949, became the first physician to use a radioactively labelled noble gas for diagnostic purposes in humans ... Died September 7, 1991 (aged 87), Berkeley, California, United States ...) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_H._Lawrence> Gale In Context: Biography, database, viewed September 15, 2022: Lambert, Bruce. "John H. Lawrence, 87; Led in Radiation Research." New York Times, 9 Sept. 1991. (Dr. John H. Lawrence, a discoverer of the dangers of nuclear radiation who went on to pioneer its use in diagnosing and treating cancer and other diseases, died Saturday [September 7, 1991] at Alta Bates Hospital in Berkeley, Calif. He was 87 years old ... Dr. Lawrence founded the Donner Laboratory, the world's first research laboratory devoted to nuclear medicine ... In 1936 he joined the University of California to create and head the research laboratory in Berkeley .. Dr. Lawrence and his colleagues began using neutron beams on cancer in 1939 ... His laboratory also had success in using cyclotron beams to treat acromegaly and Cushing's disease, disorders associated with irregularities in the pituitary gland, and several other illnesses ... Gov. Ronald Reagan of California appointed Dr. Lawrence to the state's Board of Regents in 1970, selecting him from a group of professors known for political conservatism. He served until 1983 ...) |
| Associated language | eng |
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