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John Cameron Physicist

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: United States
  • Born: Apr 21, 1922
  • Died: Mar 16, 2005

John Cameron, born in northern Wisconsin in 1922, was raised on a farm and experienced firsthand the Depression years. In 1937 his parents moved to Superior so that he and his seven siblings could attend college. After enrolling at UW-Superior, John's education was interrupted by service in the U.S. Army Signal Corps from 1941 to 1946. After the war, he enrolled at the University of Chicago and received a BS degree in mathematics in 1947.

Cameron is widely recognized for several innovative and seminal contributions to medical physics. He investigated and advanced thermoluminescence dosimetry, establishing most of the principal characteristics needed for wide applicability. This technology became the standard for personal radiation monitoring, eventually largely replacing traditional film densitometry.

Medical physics is an applied area of physics. medical

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

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

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

I am now almost certain that we need more radiation for better health. health

I was the Chair of the first department of medical physics in a medical school in the U.S. medical