#radiation

Many people who did not die right away came down with nausea, headache, diarrhea, malaise, and fever, which lasted several days. Doctors could not be certain whether some of these symptoms were the result of radiation or nervous shock. ↗

— John Hersey

#came #certain #could #days #diarrhea

My project was radiation damage of Si and Ge by energetic electrons, critical for the use of the recently developed semiconductor devices for applications in outer space. ↗

— Walter Kohn

#critical #damage #developed #devices #electrons

I go for my completely routine mammogram and then I get a call from my gynecologist. And she says, 'Well, I have some - it's not such great news, but here it is, but it's very small and we're just going to get in there and take it right out, right away, and then you'll probably have radiation.' ↗

— Cynthia Nixon

#call #completely #get #go #going

I had a lumpectomy. It wasn't that bad. Six and a half weeks of radiation. ↗

— Cynthia Nixon

#had #half #i #radiation #six

The doctors realized in retrospect that even though most of these dead had also suffered from burns and blast effects, they had absorbed enough radiation to kill them. The rays simply destroyed body cells - caused their nuclei to degenerate and broke their walls. ↗

— John Hersey

#blast #body #broke #burns #caused

It is likely that we need more radiation to improve our longevity. ↗

— John Cameron

#likely #longevity #more #need #our

I couldn't possibly lead the kind of life I lead, and keep the schedule that I do, having radiation or chemotherapy. ↗

— Nancy Reagan

#having #i #i do #keep #kind

It took me 45 minutes to get in all of the suits and putting all the dosimeters on me so that they knew how much radiation I got and the protective boots and everything. ↗

— William Scranton

#everything #get #got #how #i

There are allowable limits for radiation going - I mean there's radiation all around us. There's radiation from your television set. There's radiation from your computer. There's radiation actually occurring in the ground. ↗

— William Scranton

#allowable #around #computer #going #ground

There were schools and hospitals who were ready to take people with undescribed injuries, but not necessarily ready to take people with severe radiation poisoning. ↗

— William Scranton

#injuries #necessarily #people #poisoning #radiation