ABSTRACT

When Professor J.E. Roberts was first employed at the then Cancer Hospital (Free) in 1932, the words medical and physics were rarely joined together. Meandering in Medical Physics presents an account of Professor Roberts's experiences in professional life, both in the United Kingdom and overseas. It documents the early history of medical physics and provides insight into the very basic equipment and working conditions well known to hospital physicists not long ago. Enhanced by archived photographs from the British Institute of Radiology, this fascinating fireside read (European Radiology) will entertain, enlighten, and educate.

chapter Chapter 1|10 pages

A New Profession

chapter Chapter 2|11 pages

Setting Out

chapter Chapter 3|20 pages

Early Days

chapter Chapter 4|8 pages

New Horizons

chapter Chapter 5|9 pages

A Growing Business

chapter Chapter 6|12 pages

Post-War Explosion

chapter Chapter 7|9 pages

Nuclear Medicine

chapter Chapter 8|11 pages

Professional Peaks

chapter Chapter 9|5 pages

Physicist—The Odd-Job Man

chapter Chapter 10|20 pages

ICR, Zurich, 1934 and ICR, Chicago, 1937

chapter Chapter 11|15 pages

North America

chapter Chapter 12|17 pages

Far and Wide

chapter Chapter 13|13 pages

Sabbatical Interlude

chapter Chapter 14|7 pages

Medical Physics has Arrived

chapter Chapter 15|4 pages

Sitting Down