'Insights With Angela Creager'

By Nick Barberio, Office of Communications on Feb. 27, 2014, noon
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A new book by Princeton University historian Angela Creager explains how knowledge and technology that grew out of the Manhattan Project paved the way for important breakthroughs in medicine and biology. In this video, Creager describes the great hopes for atomic research in the 1940s and '50s and how those hopes were later tempered by  concerns about radiation exposure.

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