Tuesday, January 25, 2022

Revolutionaries in the History of Radiology

 

Tuesday, January 25, 2022
6-7:15pm Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Lecture and Business Meeting
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"Roentgen and Hounsfield: Two Non-Physicians Who Revolutionized Medicine" 
Richard H. Daffner, MD
(Emeritus in Radiology, AGH)

Join us for a biographical lecture about Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen (1845-1923) and Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield (1919-2004), a German physicist and an English electrical engineer who revolutionized the practice of medicine with x-rays and x-ray computed tomography (aka CT scanning). The speaker is Pittsburgh's pre-eminent historian of radiology, retired radiologist Richard H. Daffner. A brief business meeting to vote on a slate of officers will precede the evening's lecture.

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