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Robert G. Gould
Chair AAPM History Committee
•  The AAPM’s highest honor is
presented yearly to a member who
has exhibited a distinguished career
in medical physics, and who has
exerted a significant impact on the
practice of medical physics.
•  Patent #1,203,495
‘Coolidge x-ray
tube’
•  Education
–  MIT electrical
engineering
(1891-1896)
–  University of Leipzig
1972
–  Filed in 1913
–  Granted in 1916
•  Hot cathode, high
vacuum tube
•  Joined General
Electric’s Research
Laboratory in 1905
•  83 patents
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37 recipients
2 non-AAPM members
15 charter members
22 AAPM presidents
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1972 William D. Coolidge 1973 Robert J. Shalek
1974 John S. Laughlin 1975 Marvin M.D. Williams 1976 Harold E. Johns 1977 Edith E. Quimby 1978 Lawrence H. Lanzl 1979 Herbert M. Parker 1980 John R. Cameron 1981 James G. Kereiakes 1982 Gail D. Adams 1983 Edward W. Webster 1984 Robley D. Evans 1985 Jack S. Krohmer 1986 Warren K. Sinclair 1987 Gordon L. Brownell 1988 John R. Cunningham 1989 William R. Hendee 1990 Peter R. Almond
1991 Moses A. Greenfield
1992 Nagalingam Suntharalingam 1993 Colin G. Orton 1994 F. H. Attix 1995 Robert Loevinger 1996 Leonard Stanton 1997 James A. Purdy 1998 Bengt E. Bjarngard 1999 Faiz M. Khan 2000 Lowell L. Anderson 2001 Ravinder Nath 2002 Bhudatt R. Paliwal 2003 Kenneth R. Hogstrom 2004 C. Clifton Ling 2005 Gary T. Barnes 2006 Ervin B. Podgorsak
2007 Arthur Boyer
2008 Paul L. Carson
1972 William D. Coolidge 1973 Robert J. Shalek
1974 John S. Laughlin 1975 Marvin M.D. Williams 1976 Harold E. Johns 1977 Edith E. Quimby 1978 Lawrence H. Lanzl 1979 Herbert M. Parker 1980 John R. Cameron 1981 James G. Kereiakes 1982 Gail D. Adams 1983 Edward W. Webster 1984 Robley D. Evans 1985 Jack S. Krohmer 1986 Warren K. Sinclair 1987 Gordon L. Brownell 1988 John R. Cunningham 1989 William R. Hendee 1990 Peter R. Almond
1991 Moses A. Greenfield
1992 Nagalingam Suntharalingam 1993 Colin G. Orton 1994 F. H. Attix 1995 Robert Loevinger 1996 Leonard Stanton 1997 James A. Purdy 1998 Bengt E. Bjarngard 1999 Faiz M. Khan 2000 Lowell L. Anderson 2001 Ravinder Nath 2002 Bhudatt R. Paliwal 2003 Kenneth R. Hogstrom 2004 C. Clifton Ling 2005 Gary T. Barnes 2006 Ervin B. Podgorsak
2007 Arthur Boyer
2008 Paul L. Carson
•  National Bureau of Standards for
28 years
•  President of the HPS (1958-59)
•  Not an AAPM member
•  Awards
•  > 25 significant honors •  Gold Medal of the XIIIth
International Congress of
Radiology
•  Gold Medal of the Royal Swedish
Academy of Sciences (1992)
•  Conducted ~15 interviews with
prominent scientists involved with
radiation in medicine
1972 William D. Coolidge 1973 Robert J. Shalek
1974 John S. Laughlin 1975 Marvin M.D. Williams 1976 Harold E. Johns 1977 Edith E. Quimby 1978 Lawrence H. Lanzl 1979 Herbert M. Parker 1980 John R. Cameron 1981 James G. Kereiakes 1982 Gail D. Adams 1983 Edward W. Webster 1984 Robley D. Evans 1985 Jack S. Krohmer 1986 Warren K. Sinclair 1987 Gordon L. Brownell 1988 John R. Cunningham 1989 William R. Hendee 1990 Peter R. Almond
1991 Moses A. Greenfield
1992 Nagalingam Suntharalingam 1993 Colin G. Orton 1994 F. H. Attix 1995 Robert Loevinger 1996 Leonard Stanton 1997 James A. Purdy 1998 Bengt E. Bjarngard 1999 Faiz M. Khan 2000 Lowell L. Anderson 2001 Ravinder Nath 2002 Bhudatt R. Paliwal 2003 Kenneth R. Hogstrom 2004 C. Clifton Ling 2005 Gary T. Barnes 2006 Ervin B. Podgorsak
2007 Arthur Boyer
2008 Paul L. Carson
•  Thomas Jefferson University
•  Numerous committees concerned
with radiation uses, effects and
dosimetry, of the ACR, RSNA, HPS,
AAPM, and NCI
•  11th President of the AAPM (1969)
•  AAPM Award for Achievement in
Medical Physics (1997)
•  AAPM Videographer
1998
Bob Gorson
–  Conducted more than 110 interviews
with prominent medical physicist and
members of the AAPM
6th AAPM Coolidge Award (1977)
•  Joined Gioacchino Failla at NY
Memorial Hospital in 1919
•  Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA
(1912)
•  Seminal research in radiation dose
determination
•  Awards
Edith Quimby
–  RSNA Gold Medal
–  American Radium Society Janeway
Medal
•  First woman recipient
•  League of Women Voters
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3rd AAPM Coolidge Award (1974)
•  Joined Memorial SloanKettering in 1952 as Chair of
Medical Physics
•  7th President of the AAPM
(1965)
•  Awards
–  HPS Distinguished Scientific
Achievement Award (1982)
–  SNM Aebersold Award (1984)
–  ACR Gold Medal (1988)
–  ASTRO Gold Medal (1993)
4th AAPM Coolidge Award (1975)
•  4th President of the AAPM
(1963)
•  Whitman College, Walla Walla,
WA (1925)
•  Head of physics at Mayo
Clinic
•  ABR examiner of 3000
radiologists and 250
physicists
•  Awards
•  Gold Medal RSNA
7th AAPM Coolidge Award (1978)
•  Born, raised, educated and spent
his entire medical physics career
in Chicago
•  University of Chicago
–  Helped develop both 60Co and linear
accelerator
–  Established the graduate program in
Medical Physics
•  9th President of the AAPM
•  President of the IOMP
5th AAPM Coolidge Award (1976)
•  1st Canadian to win the
Coolidge Award
•  Developed Co60 unit
•  Harold Johns Museum,
Saskatoon, CA
•  Awards
•  Order of Canada
•  Inductee to Canadian
Medical Hall of Fame
•  Gold Medal ASTRO1980
5th AAPM Coolidge Award (1976)
Harold Johns, Charles Burkell, Sylvia Fedoruk
Harold Johns Museum, Saskatoon Cancer Agency, Saskatoon
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