Alex Wellerstein on Twitter: "Model human body, filled with water, used to simulate neutron capturing. 1944.… "

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Historian of science, secrecy, and nuclear weapons. Professor of STS at @FollowStevens. UC Berkeley alum with a Harvard PhD. NUKEMAP creator. Coder and web dev.

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1. Charles Day‏ @CSRDay 17 May 2016
  
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  Water phantoms - that's the technical term - are alive and well in medical physics
  
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1. Matthew Dockrey‏ @gfish 18 May 2016
  
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  .@wellerstein What an intriguing device! I just had to model it in 3D to capture its full creepy glory: http://ow.ly/i/ju37e
  
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1. Theo Mertzimekis PhD‏ @tmertzi 17 May 2016
  
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  It has changed drastically in today’s studies with phantoms
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1. Theo Mertzimekis PhD‏ @tmertzi 17 May 2016
  
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  It looks like hangman a bit ;-)
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1. Paul McGrane‏ @pmcg 17 May 2016
  
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  nowadays they fill airplanes with potatoes to simulate wifi microwave absorption!
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