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Taking Measure

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Denis Bergeron

Denis Bergeron received a B.S. in chemistry from Loyola University New Orleans and a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the Pennsylvania State University. Following a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Nottingham, he came to NIST as a National Research Council (NRC) Fellow in 2006 and joined the Radioactivity Group as a research chemist in 2008. His two daughters think a bowling analogy for targeted alpha therapy seems like a stretch.

NIST Radioactivity Measurements Get the Ball Rolling for New Cancer Therapies

February 18, 2021

From the earliest days of radioactivity research, radiation and cancer therapy have gone together like peas and carrots. But Zach Levine covered peas and

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