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Edith

Hinkley Quimby (July

10, 1891 – October 11, 1982) was an American medical researcher and physicist,

best known as one of the founders of nuclear medicine. Her work involved developing diagnostic and

therapeutic applications of X-rays. One of her main concerns was

protecting both those handling the radioactive material and making sure that

those being treated were given the lowest dose necessary. She was born on July

10, 1891, in Rockford, Illinois. In

1912, she graduated from Whitman degree in mathematics and physics. After a brief stint teaching high school in Nyssa, Oregon, she was awarded a 1914

fellowship for her master's degree studies at the University of California which

she earned in 1916. 

In 1919 she moved to New York City, where she took a job at the Memorial

Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases as assistant physicist

to Gioacchino Failla, which

was very rare for a woman in her time; she became an associate physicist there

in 1932. Her working relationship with Failla continued

for another forty years. In 1942 she left Memorial Hospital and joined

the Center for Radiological

Research, led by Failla, at Columbia's medical school, where she

worked until 1978. Her research at Memorial Hospital delved into safe doses of

medicinal radiation, observing the energy emitted by potential materials

for nuclear medicine as

well as the amount of radiation absorbed by the body from different sources.

She also studied the potential of synthesised radioactive materials for

treating cancer and in other medical research applications. In 1941 she was

appointed to the faculty of Cornell University Medical

College as an assistant professor of radiology. The next year, she became an associate professor

of radiation physics at

the College of Physicians and Surgeons at In Columbia University. She

was promoted to full professor in

1954 and retired in 1960.

Quimby received many awards for her work throughout her career and

participated in several scientific societies. In 1940, she was the first women

to receive the Janeway Medal from American Radium Society. The

following year, she was awarded the Gold Medal of the Radiological

Society of North America, for work which "placed every

radiologist in her debt.". She was elected president of the American Radium Society in

1954. In 1963, the American College of

Radiology honoured her with its gold medal. She was one of the

first members of the American

Association of Physicists in of Physicists in Medicine established a lifetime

achievement award in her honor.

Dr.

Shirley Leon Quimby, a professor emeritus of physics at Columbia University

whose research in solid-state physics led to the development of antimagnetic

mine devices in World War II, died May 15 at his home in Manhattan. He was 93

years old. Dr. Quimby was a mine-warfare commander in the Navy in World War II

and received the Legion of Merit. He was an enlisted man in the Navy in World

War I. He was born in San Francisco. Dr. Quimby graduated from the University

of California at Berkeley in 1915 and received his doctorate from Columbia.

Columbia appointed him a physics instructor in 1919, and he became a full

professor in 1943. Dr. Quimby was named professor emeritus in 1962. His wife,

Edith, a professor of radiology at the Columbia College of Physicians and

Surgeons, died in 1982.

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