A Century of Radiation and Medical Physics at New York’s Memorial Hospital

Since the early 1910s, the staff of Memorial Hospital in New York has been deeply involved in the development and application of radiation to treat cancer. This book chronicles the activities and contributions of the hospital’s medical physics staff from 1910–2010. Memorial Hospital’s medical physics pioneers included the likes of Gioacchino Failla and Edith Quimby, while the modern eras were led by John Laughlin and Clifton Ling.