Peter Fessenden

A Census of Pensioners for Revolutionary Or Military Service

• Author(s): United States. Census Office 6th Census, 1840

• Categories: Military pensions

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1841
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• Publisher: Unknown

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AEC Authorizing Legislation, Fiscal Year 1971

• Author(s): United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1970
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• Publisher: Unknown

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The Kissam Family in America from 1644 to 1825

• Author(s): Edward Kissam

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1892
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• Publisher: Unknown

John Kissam (b.1644) emigrated from England to Flushing, Long Island, New York, and was " ... known as John O'Casson or Ockeson ..." He later moved to Great Neck, Long Island, New York. Descendants listed lived chiefly in New York.

Flight of Years

• Author(s): George Washington Burnap

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1853
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Physics against cancer

• Author(s): Damien Weber, Simon Crompton

• Categories: Medical

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2023-02-06
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• Publisher: vdf Hochschulverlag AG

Cancer Treatment, Radiation Oncology, PSI, Pencil Beam Scanning, History of Medicine Modern proton therapy is saving the lives of more and more children and adults with difficult-to-treat cancers. The spectacular rise of proton therapy might never have happened if it were not for the pioneering work of the Paul Scherrer Institute – a Swiss centre founded to explore physics and the nature of matter, but which turned its understanding of basic science into applications that would benefit mankind. This is the place that pioneered a technique of delivering protons to tumours called pencil beam scanning (also known as spot scanning) – now used in nearly every proton therapy centre in the worl...