Time Quote by James Mahaffey

“THE RADIUM WATER WORKED FINE UNTILE HIS JAW CAME OFF.”

— James Mahaffey

“However, in very low doses strychnine can act as a nerve stimulant, and I can see how Bailey, and most likely others, saw it…

— James Mahaffey

“In general, nuclear workers are allowed to absorb 5 rem per year, and civilians are allowed 0.5 rem per year.”

— James Mahaffey

“it is correct to remind them of the British Blue Peacock nuclear weapon, in which the batteries were kept warm by two chickens living…

— James Mahaffey

“For a human, the lethal dose is about a tenth of a gram.”

— James Mahaffey

“Isotopes of radium, the first nuclear radiation sources to be commercially exploited, are probably the worst examples out of thousands of radioactive isotopes.”

— James Mahaffey

“It's a good thing we won the war. If we hadn't, I'd be hanged as a war criminal" -- Gen Curtis LeMay, quoted by…

— James Mahaffey

“Seeing the value of publication shown by Röntgen’s disclosure, he wrote three articles for the Electrical Review in 1896 describing what it felt like…

— James Mahaffey

“The Soviets were worried that the Americans would attack their "sparkling new Mir space station, ... in a space shuttle, throw out grappling hooks,…

— James Mahaffey

“An arsenic compound is still used to treat promyelocytic leukemia, and the isotope arsenic-74 is used as a radioactive tracer to find tumors.”

— James Mahaffey

“Nuclear rockets capable of sending a fully equipped colony to Mars in one shot were designed.”

— James Mahaffey

“Ivan Pulyui, a college professor at the University of Vienna from the Ukraine, is sometimes credited with having sold the first x-ray tubes, before…

— James Mahaffey