Word: positrons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Addressing a group of science writers visiting Boston under the sponsorship of the American Cancer Society, Sweet and Brownell disclosed that surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital are using a "positron," an atomic particle emitted from material made radio-active in the M.I.T. cyclotron, to detect and locate brain tumors...