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Radiation
and Photochemistry
HISTORY
Radiation Chemistry began
at Argonne with the hiring of Dr. Edwin J. Hart from US Rubber to form
the Radiation Group in the late 1940’s. The group started studying the
radiation chemistry of aqueous solutions, a field that was thought to
be completely known; of course this was prior to the observation of the
hydrated electron, the OH radical and much of what is known to be important
today.
The early staff included Max
Matheson, who purchased the first accelerator for radiation chemistry
and who published one of the first papers using pulse radiolysis (3 papers
appeared in the same month describing the first pulse radiolysis experiment).
In the late 1960’s a new linac was purchased and in the early 1970’s,
the first picosecond pulse radiolysis experiments were done at Argonne
by Matheson and Jonah. These experiments showed the importance of understanding
the primary processes of radiation chemistry, a focus that has continued
to this day. Also, during this time, studies of electron-transfer
reactions were initiated, first in glasses and later using rigid molecular
frameworks, radiation chemistry of gases, radiolysis using heavy ions,
supercritical fluids, and hydrocarbons.
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