Nuclear physics Quote by John Cameron

There are now over 5,000 medical physicists in the U.S more than 50 times the number in 1958.

— John Cameron

The growth of technology is such that it is not possible today for a nuclear physicist to switch into medical physics without training. The…

— John Cameron

I started the nuclear medicine laboratory at UW Hospitals in 1959 and trained radiology residents in the field. It was 1965 before they found…

— John Cameron

In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics…

— Burton Richter

I started out in nuclear physics. But after I became more sensitized to the environmental and health implications of the nuclear system - I…

— Vandana Shiva

In 1955, I got my degree in electrical-mechanical engineering. I realised, however, that my interest was less in practical applications than in the understanding…

— Francois Englert

I have devoted much time and energy to helping medical physics in developing countries.

— John Cameron

I entered the Physics Department in 1950, receiving a Master's degree in 1953 and a Ph.D. in 1956. It is difficult to convey the…

— Jerome Isaac Friedman

Medical physics is an applied area of physics.

— John Cameron

Although important nuclear physics work was to go on in laboratories such as ours had become - and we had to cut down to…

— John Henry Carver

I don't recall any interest in science in particular. It came later in college.

— Ellen Ochoa

I am sure that I have been much more useful to society as a medical physicist.

— John Cameron