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Yusuf Emre Erdi

Yusuf Emre Erdi (b. Oct. 26, 1964) is a medical physicist who is internationally known for his expertise in positron-emission tomography (PET).


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Abraham Katzir

Abraham Katzir (born 1941 in Jerusalem, Israel) is a Professor of Physics at Tel Aviv University, holding the Carol and Mel Taub Chair in Applied Medical Physics.

Harold E. Johns

A meeting in August 1946 with William Valentine Mayneord, while Mayneord was at the Atomic Energy Project at Chalk River, Ontario, contributed to Johns's making a career in medical physics.

William Valentine Mayneord

He entered the field of medical physics in 1924 at St Bart's Hospital in London.

It was during a meeting in 1946 with a young Harold Elford Johns, inventor of the cobalt-60 teletherapy unit, that Johns was prompted to go into medical physics.