And they said it wouldn’t last.
But, here we are 60-years later after the discovery of the Tc-99m generator and today Tc-99m is responsible for 80% of the life saving nuclear medicine scans done today. There’s a lot of history since the founding of Brookhaven National Laboratory and the soon to follow launch of nuclear medicine. The article linked to this post is an interesting read and I bet for most will provide details of the development of this diagnostic imaging specialty they’ve not considered in some time.