核・放射化学の紹介 : 重元素科学から環境放射能・無機分析化学，医用機器開発まで

The end of the late１９th century, nuclear and radiochemistry was firstly constructed by one of great chemists, Marie Curie. At that time, she had carried out the first discovery of two new elements, polonium and radium, using chemical decomposition and separation methods of the first exercise in radiochemistry of uranium ores. Currently, nuclear and radiochemistry plays an important role in various fundamental and applied research fields from physics, chemistry, and biology, toward the environment, energy, industrial materials, life science, medicine, agriculture, education, and so on. This review is focused mainly on the introduction of current nuclear and radiochemistry, in particular, from the nuclear sciences of transuranium nuclides including recent experimental works of superheavy element chemistry toward radioactivity in the environment, inorganic analytical chemistry and the application of scientific technology to development of medical device.