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- catalog abstract ""In Isotopes and Innovation Paul Litt gives us an in-depth look at MDS Nordion, a company that started as the radium sales department of Eldorado Mining and Refining, the Canadian uranium producer that was a key strategic resource for the Allies during the race to build the nuclear bomb, and went on to become the world's leading producer of radioisotopes." "When radium began to be used as a cancer treatment, Eldorado quickly became familiar with the medical marketplace and adept at developing products that could solve clinical problems and, more important, save lives. When Canadian nuclear reactors at Chalk River began producing radioisotopes that outperformed radium, Eldorado's radium sales department was transferred to a new crown corporation, Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, created to manage Canada's nuclear research establishment. The new company developed many useful applications for radioisotopes, including cobalt-60 cancer therapy machines and industrial sterilization plants. Bought by Medical Data Services Inc. in the early 1990s, MDS Nordion was a runaway success, creator and sole proprietor of several market-leading products." "Isotopes and Innovation describes how a company capitalized on the byproducts of Canada's unique nuclear research program to attain a commanding international position in extremely specialized and demanding high-tech markets, a saga in which innovative research and enterprising global marketing have brought commercial success and saved countless lives around the world."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b11637042.
- catalog created "[2000]".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "[2000]".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "[2000]".
- catalog description ""In Isotopes and Innovation Paul Litt gives us an in-depth look at MDS Nordion, a company that started as the radium sales department of Eldorado Mining and Refining, the Canadian uranium producer that was a key strategic resource for the Allies during the race to build the nuclear bomb, and went on to become the world's leading producer of radioisotopes." "When radium began to be used as a cancer treatment, Eldorado quickly became familiar with the medical marketplace and adept at developing products that could solve clinical problems and, more important, save lives. When Canadian nuclear reactors at Chalk River began producing radioisotopes that outperformed radium, Eldorado's radium sales department was transferred to a new crown corporation, Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, created to manage Canada's nuclear research establishment. The new company developed many useful applications for radioisotopes, including cobalt-60 cancer therapy machines and industrial sterilization plants. Bought by Medical Data Services Inc. in the early 1990s, MDS Nordion was a runaway success, creator and sole proprietor of several market-leading products." "Isotopes and Innovation describes how a company capitalized on the byproducts of Canada's unique nuclear research program to attain a commanding international position in extremely specialized and demanding high-tech markets, a saga in which innovative research and enterprising global marketing have brought commercial success and saved countless lives around the world."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-238) and index.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 249 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0773520821 (pbk.) :".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "[2000]".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Montreal ; Ithaca : Published for MDS Nordion by McGill-Queen's University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Canada".
- catalog subject "338.7/6214837/0971 21".
- catalog subject "HD9539.R284 M38 2000".
- catalog subject "MDS Nordion History.".
- catalog subject "Radium industry Canada History.".
- catalog title "Isotopes and innovation : MDS Nordion's first fifty years, 1946-1996 / Paul Litt.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".