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born 1984 Australia

Suzanne Lyn Sheehy (born 1984) is an Australian accelerator physicist who runs research groups at the University of Oxford and the University of Melbourne, where she is developing new particle accelerators for applications in medicine.

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So you can actually put your head in the beam of an accelerator and survive it. And he's not the only one to have done it.

So yes, you probably have eaten something that's been through a particle accelerator...

[E]xperiments take us to that frightening frontier of vulnerability: the real world.

The Matter of Everything (2023)

In the U.S. if you see this green symbol on your food, that doesn't mean it's organic. It means it's been irradiated, which is a little bit misleading...

I'll tell you very briefly how they work. ...The first thing we need is some ...subatomic particles, or even atoms themselves perhaps.

So it sounded like a crazy question, but if you had a brain tumor you might very well want to stick your head in the beam of a particle accelerator.

So what is radiation? It's energy in the form of moving particles or waves, emitted by an atom or another body as it changes from one energy state to another. That's the official definition.

So we can't use it as a weapon. ...No deployed weapon has ever used this technology.

I suppose I was trying to figure out the meaning of my own existence. ...I went about it in a more indirect way: I set about trying to understand the entire Universe.

The Matter of Everything (2023)

That thing... is radioactive. They're called thoriated rods, and they're used in welding. You can... just buy them.

So when we're thinking about radiation and radioactivity, it is worth keeping in mind that just the fact that something is radioactive does not means it's harmful...

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Suzie Sheehy (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.