Erratum to: Cobalt Blues

The online version of the original book can be found under DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-4924-9

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Erratum to: P. R. Almond, Cobalt Blues, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-4924-9

Author Biography

Peter. R. Almond, Ph.D. received his undergraduate honors degree in physics from Nottingham University and his training in medical physics from Bristol University, in the United Kingdom. In 1959 he moved to the United States as a fellow in Medical Physics at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute earning his master’s and doctoral degrees in nuclear physics from Rice University in Houston in 1960 and 1965 respectively. From 1964 to 1985 he worked at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston in the Physics Department, where he served as the Head of the Radiation Physics section and director of the Cyclotron Unit and Professor of Biophysics. He was a member The University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences from1966 to 1985 and from 1999 to 2012 as a Distinguished Senior Lecturer. From 1985 to 1998 he was Vice-Chairman of the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Louisville.

Dr. Almond has helped to develop cancer treatments with various forms of radiation, including high-energy photons, electrons, and neutrons. He has also been instrumental in developing basic measurement techniques for these radiations—writing calibration protocols for the United States, the IAEA, and ICRU. He helped found the journal Medical Physics, has served as the North American Editor for Physics in Medicine and Biology, and was the Founding Editor and Editor-in-Chief of the electronic Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics. He has served on numerous national and international committees and councils including the NCRP, the NRC, and the NIH on the Radiation Study Section, serving as chairman for 2  years. He worked on the dosimetry for the atomic bomb survivors for the NAS/NRC.

Academically, Dr. Almond has supervised over 25 masters and doctoral students in medical physics. He has authored or co-authored over 100 scientific articles and numerous chapters in radiotherapy textbooks. He has served as President of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine and as Chairman of the Board of Chancellors of the American College of Medical Physics. Dr. Almond is a fellow of the AAPM, ACMP, ACR and the IOP. He is diplomat of the American Board of Radiology and the American Board of Medical Physics. He is licensed as a Professional Medical Physicist in the state of Texas and a Chartered Physicist (C Phys) in the United Kingdom. He has received the Coolidge Award and the Marvin M.D. Williams Professional Achievement Award from the AAPM and the ACMP respectively. He has twice received the Farrington Daniel Award for the best scientific paper on Radiation Dosimetry in Medical Physics. Now retired, he works on the history of medical physics.