50 Prominent Medical Physicists

Fifty Outstanding Medical Physicists

In 2014, to mark its 50th anniversary, the International Organization for Medical Physics published a list of 50 medical physicists who have made an outstanding contribution to the advancement of medical physics over the last 50 years. I thought it would be interesting to see how many Russ Hobbie and I mention in Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology.

Hardly any. Only 11 of these 50 prominent medical physicists appear in IPMB.

Another eight don’t appear in IPMB but have been mentioned in this blog: Anders Brahme, John Cunningham, Charles Mistretta, Ervin Podgorsak, Madan Rehani, Jean-Claude Rosenwald, Jacob Van Dyk, and Steve Webb. I’m not familiar with the other 31. I guess I don’t know as much as I thought I did. 😮 You can find the entire list here.

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As I was posting this article on my blog, it occurred to me that the list of 50 medical physicists came out about ten years ago, and that I ought to update it to 60 outstanding medical physicists in the last 60 years. Here are my additional ten. I tried to honor the spirit of the list by restricting myself to those who worked in the era from 1963 to 2023, but I couldn’t resist going back just a little further to select a few who worked in the 1950s.

Originally published at http://hobbieroth.blogspot.com.

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Professor of Physics at Oakland University and coauthor of the textbook Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology.

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Brad Roth

Professor of Physics at Oakland University and coauthor of the textbook Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology.