Table of Contents

Atomic Nuclei.

Radioactive Decay Processes.

Nuclear Reactions.

Equations of Decay and Growth.

Interactions of Radiation with Matter.

Radiation Detection and Measurement.

Techniques in Nuclear Chemistry.

Statistical Considerations in Radioactivity Measurements.

Nuclear Models.

Radiochemical Applications.

Nuclear Processes as Chemical Probes.

Nuclear Processes in Geology and Astrophysics.

Nuclear Energy.

Sources of Nuclear Bombarding Particles.

Appendices.

Index.

About the Author

Gerhart Friedlander was a nuclear chemist who worked on the Manhattan Project. Friedlander was born in Munich, and fled Nazi Germany for the United States in 1936. After emigrating, he studied at the University of California, Berkeley, earning a PhD. Joseph William Kennedy was an American chemist who was a co-discoverer of plutonium, along with Glenn T. Seaborg, Edwin McMillan and Arthur Wahl.