Anthracene Scintillation Detector
date: label: Date made
content: pre 1950
name: label: manufacturer
content: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
notes: label: Description
content: This instrument was associated with Persa Raymond Bell (1913-2001), a physicist who worked for many years at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and was remembered as “one of the founders of nuclear medicine and a versatile electronics expert.”
label: Description
content: Ref: P. R. Bell, “The Use of Anthracene as a Scintillation Detector,” (U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, 1954).
label: Description
content: Alvin Weinberg, “Persa Raymond ‘P. R. Bell,” Physics Today 54 (2001): 77-78.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Tennessee, Oak Ridge
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Modern Physics
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1977.0359.36
label: accession number
content: 1977.0359
label: catalog number
content: 1977.0359.36
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Photo Multiplier
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: .05 m x .185 m; 3/16 ft x 5/8 ft