"The growth of technology is such that it is not possible today for a nuclear physicist to switch into medical physics without training. The field is now much more technical. More training is needed to do the job."
-John Cameron
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"I have devoted much time and energy to helping medical physics in developing countries.“
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"There are now over 5,000 medical physicists in the U.S more than 50 times the number in 1958."
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"I was the Chair of the first department of medical physics in a medical school in the U.S."
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"When I entered medical physics in 1958 there were fewer than 100 in the U.S. and I could see many opportunities to apply my knowledge of nuclear physics."
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"I am sure that I have been much more useful to society as a medical physicist."
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