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The Journal of Nuclear Medicine | October 1, 1998| | Copyright

SNM Archives

There is now a home for the Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) archives: a dedicated, secure, climate-controlled room at SNM headquarters in Reston, VA. All archival material is cataloged in computer files accessible to anyone involved in scholarly historical research. The papers of the late Michel Ter-Pogossian were generously donated to SNM by his widow, Ann. They were accessioned by the SNM historian and a consultant historian, Nan Knight, PhD. The Ter-Pogossian collection occupies 15 numbered and labeled boxes. The next acquisition will be the large collection of papers, ...

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