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AN inaugural meeting of the new Hospital Physicists' Association, held by courtesy at the British Institute of Radiology on September 24, was attended by thirty-seven physicists drawn from hospitals all over Great Britain. The aims of the new Association are to discuss matters arising out of the mutual interests of those engaged in a branch of scientific work which has grown up largely in the last thirty years. Membership is open to physicists attached to hospitals, medical schools, medical or biological research departments. The meeting was followed by visits to the Middlesex, Royal Cancer and Westminster Hospitals on the next day. The afternoon session was devoted to papers. Dr. H. T. Flint spoke on technique with the various radium gram-units ; Prof. F. L. Hopwood gave an account of the betatron ; Prof. G. Stead discussed teaching for the diplomas and Prof. S. Russ read a paper on the professional equipment of a hospital physicist. Messages of goodwill from the National Radium Commission and the Council of the British Institute of Radiology were read at the meeting. It was agreed that there should be at least three meetings during the year, one of which should be in the provinces. Prof. Russ was elected chairman for the first year, with Dr. Wilson of Westminster Hospital acting as honorary secretary. Prof. Russ reminded his audience that the first full-time appointment as physicist to the Hospital was made thirty years ago. It is likely that to-day between fifty and sixty physicists were engaged in some capacity in hospital or medical research work. A good start was made with the new Association with plenty of evidence of vitality among its members.
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Hospital Physicists' Association. Nature 152, 443 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/152443a0
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