At a ceremony held during the annual meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in July, the following individuals were recognized for their achievements in medical physics.
C. Clifton Ling was acknowledged for his distinguished career in medical physics with the presentation of the association’s highest honor, the William D. Coolidge Award. Ling is the Enid A. Haupt Professor and chairman of the department of medical physics at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and professor of radiology in the Weill Medical College of Cornell University, both in New York City.
Outstanding career accomplishments earned Donald E. Herbert the Award for Achievement in Medical Physics. He is a professor of radiology and director of the Biostatistics and Epidemiology Core Unit at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine in Mobile.
A Special Award for Outstanding Contributions to Medical Physics was granted posthumously to radiologist and medical...
