What is medical physics? Where, when and how did it develop? These questions are addressed, using selected stories of people and events, some mainstream, some tangential. Reflections from the author’s career and experience are woven in, aiming to share a continuing enthusiasm for medical physics as a scientific discipline that is beneficial to patients, societally worthwhile and personally absorbing; and as a recommended clinical and research profession.
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Duck FA, Physicists and Physicians: A History of Medical Physics from the Renaissance to Röntgen (Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine, York UK, 2013 ISBN 978-1-903,613-55-9).
I have drawn heavily on some sources, the main one of which is Francis Duck’s 2013 book (footnote 1). Other references were editorially discouraged, but I particularly acknowledge use of medical physics history papers by Francis himself (Physica Medica June 2014), Steve Keevil (Lancet April 21, 2012) and two PMB papers, by Richard Mould (Nov 1995) and Freidrich-Ernst Stieve (a radiologist, June 1991). I have also multiply consulted English and French Wikipedia to check information.
