November 11th
- Joseph Gilbert Hamilton was an American medical physicist who pioneered the medical uses and health effects of radioactive isotopes.
- On 23 Mar 1936, he injected intravenously a sodium radioisotope into a leukemia patient.
- His New York Times obituary stated that he was “believed to be the first-ever to inject a radioisotope intravenously in a human being”.
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