On 7 October 2019, Dr Gregg Semenza of Johns Hopkins University received a life-changing call from Sweden to say he’d been awarded […]
Posts Tagged ‘Award’
Nobel Prize Controversies
Over the years, there have been three medical imaging technologies whose developers have been awarded a Nobel Prize: X-rays (1901); […]
An Icon Bids Adieu
In 1985, Dr Jay Stein and his good friend David Ellenbogen teamed up to co-found Hologic with 12 employees and the intention […]
X-Rays as Art
If we cast our minds back to November 1895, to Würzburg in Germany, we can see the physicist Wilhelm Röntgen […]
53 Fridays in 2021
We know there are 52 weeks in a year, so how is it possible that today, 31 December 2021, is […]
Another Breakthrough from SA
Last Friday, we highlighted the contribution of two South Africans – Jamie Ambrose and Allan Cormack – to the development of computer […]
CT Turns 50
Fifty years ago on 1 October 1971, “Jamie Ambrose, a consultant radiologist at Atkinson Morley’s Hospital in Wimbledon, south London, made […]
Benefits of Screening Recognised
The Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) has just announced that the Alexander Margulis Award for Scientific Excellence in 2021 has been […]
Laugh First, and Then Think
In a few weeks’ time, we learn who will be awarded the Nobel Prizes for 2021. As we have previously […]
Inspired by the Dutch
There is a famous Dutch expression, “Er zijn geen binnenwegen richtung beter,” which means “There are no short cuts to any […]