RARE! "Sc ientists" Edith & Shirley Quimby Signed 3X5.5 Card Todd Mueller COA

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Edith Hinkley Quimby
(July 10, 1891 – October 11, 1982) was an American medical researcher and physicist, best known as one of the founders of
nuclear medicine
. Her work involved developing diagnostic and therapeutic applications of
X-rays
. One of her main concerns was protecting both those handling the radioactive material and making sure that those being treated were given the lowest dose necessary. She was born on July 10, 1891, in
Rockford, Illinois
. In 1912, she graduated from
Whitman College
in
Washington
with a
bachelor's degree
in
mathematics
and
physics
. After a brief stint teaching
high school
in Nyssa, Oregon, she was awarded a 1914 fellowship for her
master's degree
studies at the
University of California
which she earned in 1916.
In 1919 she moved to
New York City
, where she took a job at the
Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases
as assistant physicist to
Gioacchino Failla
, which was very rare for a woman in her time; she became an associate physicist there in 1932. Her working relationship with Failla continued for another forty years. In 1942 she left Memorial Hospital and joined the
Center for Radiological Research
, led by Failla, at Columbia's medical school, where she worked until 1978. Her research at Memorial Hospital delved into safe doses of medicinal radiation, observing the energy emitted by potential materials for
nuclear medicine
as well as the amount of radiation absorbed by the body from different sources. She also studied the potential of synthesised radioactive materials for treating cancer and in other medical research applications. In 1941 she was appointed to the faculty of
Cornell University Medical College
as an
assistant professor
of
radiology
. The next year, she became an associate professor of
radiation physics
at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at In
Columbia University
. She was promoted to
full professor
in 1954 and retired in 1960.
Quimby received many awards for her work throughout her career and participated in several scientific societies. In 1940, she was the first women to receive the
Janeway Medal
from
American Radium Society
. The following year, she was awarded the Gold Medal of the
Radiological Society of North America
, for work which "placed every radiologist in her debt.". She was elected president of the
American Radium Society
in 1954. In 1963, the
American College of Radiology
honoured her with its gold medal. She was one of the first members of the
American Association of Physicists in Medicine
. The
American Association of Physicists in Medicine
established a lifetime achievement award in her honor.
Dr. Shirley Leon Quimby, a professor emeritus of physics at Columbia University whose research in solid-state physics led to the development of antimagnetic mine devices in World War II, died May 15 at his home in Manhattan. He was 93 years old. Dr. Quimby was a mine-warfare commander in the Navy in World War II and received the Legion of Merit. He was an enlisted man in the Navy in World War I. He was born in San Francisco. Dr. Quimby graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1915 and received his doctorate from Columbia. Columbia appointed him a physics instructor in 1919, and he became a full professor in 1943. Dr. Quimby was named professor emeritus in 1962. His wife, Edith, a professor of radiology at the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, died in 1982.