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Both the private and government funding played a significant role in research, which aided in the development of nuclear medicine. In an attempt to solve a hypothesis or cure to an illness that afflicted society, the early research funded for nuclear medicine resulted from personal motives. Funding in nuclear medicine provided by universities, estates, and other institutions caused research to remain on an undeveloped private level. Offering a change through the study of nuclear medicine, the studies of radioactive substances by George de Hevesy lead to improvements, his research remained private and unknown to only a few physicists in the field. Supported by the University of California, the study by Ernest and John Lawrence gained the attention of the