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in Berkeley was among the first to produce useful amounts of radioactive isotopes which could be used in studies of their effects on living tissue. In a series of papers published in 1937 Hamilton detailed early medical trials using radioactive sodium, followed by papers detailing the use of the
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in 1944. Hamilton led a team to conduct toxicity experiments on rats. Finding the results unsatisfactory, Hamilton participated in the decision to continue the trials with human subjects. The teams conducted trials in secret from 1945 to 1947.
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Once the AEC took over control of the Manhattan Project's various roles, Hamilton returned to his work at Berkeley. In a memo written in 1950, Hamilton gave some recommendations to the AEC's Director of Biology and Medicine,
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Elmer Allen, CAL-3, was 36 at the time of injection and lived for 44 years post injection, with his cause of death being recorded as respiratory failure, pneumonia. He died in 1991 shortly before
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Simeon Shaw, CAL-2, was 4 years old at the time of injection and diagnosed with bone cancer. Shaw lived for 255 days post injection, with his cause of death being recorded as bone cancer.
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setting of far lower tolerance limits of these substances than had been theorised before trials. The Atomic Energy Commission terminated this series of human trials in 1950.
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radioactive isotopes of potassium, chlorine, bromine, and iodine. Radioactive iodine was found to be particularly useful in the diagnosis and treatment of thyroid disorders.
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Hamilton's studies of isotope retention in humans, especially of radioactive strontium and the transuranic elements, were the principal reason for the
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into 18 unsuspecting human patients and measuring its concentration in excreta. Joseph Gilbert Hamilton's team injected three of the subjects at
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LAWRENCE, E O; GARRISON W M (August 1957). "J.G. Hamilton, medical physicist and physician".
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and interned at the University of California Hospital, San Francisco. He was awarded his
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would be the one who carried out these experiments from 1960 to 1971 at the
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could interview him for her work in exposing the trials.
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who is voluntarily drinking a radioactive sodium solution
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