Physical Processes In Radiation Biology. Proceedings Of An International Symposium Sponsored By The U.s. Atomic Energy Commission And Held At The Kellogg Center For Continuing Education, Michigan State University, On May 6–8, 1963

Physical Processes in Radiation Biology Proceedings of an International Symposium sponsored by the U.S. atomic Energy Commission and held at the Kellogg Center for Continuing Education, Michigan State University, on May 6 - 8 , 1963 E D I T E D BY Leroy Augenstein BIOPHYSICS DEPARTMENT MICHIGAN STATE U N I V E R S I T Y EAST LANSING, MICHIGAN Barnett Rosenberg Ronald Mason CHEMISTRY DEPARTMENT IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON LONDON, ENGLAND BIOPHYSICS D E P A R T M E N T MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY EAST LANSING, MICHIGAN 1964 A C A D E M I C P R E S S New York and London COPYRIGHT (g) 1964, BY ACADEMIC PRESS INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. NO PART OF THIS BOOK MAY BE REPRODUCED IN ANY FORM, BY PHOTOSTAT, MICROFILM, OR ANY OTHER MEANS, W I T H O U T WRITTEN PERMISSION FROM THE PUBLISHERS. ACADEMIC PRESS INC. I l l Fifth Avenue, N e w York, N e w York 10003 United Kingdom Edition published by ACADEMIC PRESS INC. (LONDON) Berkeley S q u a r e H o u s e , L o n d o n W . l LTD. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOG CARD NUMBER: 64-24086 PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS Numbers in parentheses indicate pages on which the authors' contributions begin. G. E. ADAMS, Research Unit in Radiobiology, British Empire Cancer Campaign, Mount Vernon Hospital, Northwood, England (247) ARMSTRONG, Coates Chemical Laboratories, Louisiana University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana (93) ANDREW Biophysics Department, Michigan State East Lansing, Michigan (73) State University, LEROY AUGENSTEIN, S. AVERY, Crystallography Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London, London, England (197) JOHN Coates Chemical Laboratories, Louisiana State Baton Rouge, Louisiana (93) University, Coates Chemical Laboratories, Louisiana State Baton Rouge, Louisiana (93) University, LEO AZARRAGA, TOHRU AZUMI, R. D. BIRKHOFF, Health Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee (145) J. W. BOAG, Research Unit in Radiobiology, British Empire Cancer Campaign, Mount Vernon Hospital, Northwood, England (247) Health Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Oak Ridge, Tennessee (73) JAMES CARTER, Laboratory, Biophysics Department, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan (73) JAYANTI NAG-CHAUDHURI, D. P. CRAIG, William Ramsay and Ralph Forster Laboratories, University College, University of London, London, England (1) KLAUS DOSE, Max Planck Institute for Biophysics, Frankfurt, Germany (253) A. GHIRON, Department of Experimental Biology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah (309) CAMILLO I. GROSSWEINER, Department of Physics, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois (287) LEONARD E. J. HART, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois (247) H. HAYNES, Department of Biophysics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (51) ROBERT M. Institute of Molecular Biophysics and Department of Chemistry, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida (17, 23) KASHA, O. KLEMPERER, Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London, London, England (127) ARON KUPPERMANN 1 , Noyes Chemical Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois (161) LIPSKY, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota (215) SANFORD J. E. LOVELOCK2, Baylor University College of Medicine, Houston, Texas (183) RONALD MASON 3 , Crystallography Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Imperial College of Science an