Authors: Liselotte Højgaard
Publish Date: 2003/04/12
Volume: 30, Issue: 5, Pages: 637-641
Abstract
The first studies on the tracer technique were performed in the 1920s in Copenhagen at the Niels Bohr Institute where George de Hevesy from Hungary worked with Niels Bohr and coworkers from the Finsen Institute on studies on the circulation of lead and bismuth in plants and animals using Ra D and Ra E 1 When Hevesy returned to Copenhagen in the 1930s the tracer studies were extended to 32P used in fish cats and other animals The first publication on the tracer principle was a letter to the editor in Nature in 1935 that presented the studies on 32P by Hevesy Niels Bohr and Ole Chievitz surgeon and officer from The Finsen Institute later part of the Rigshospitalet 2 The editorial in the same issue of Naturewas somewhat doubtful about this new principle Nevertheless the technique did prove to be useful and Hevesy was granted the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the tracer principle The technique was subsequently developed for functional diagnosis in physiology and
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