Roscoe l koontz biography

Roscoe L Koontz designed a pinhole gamma ray camera called the collimator, and helped to design and fabricate automatic air and water radiation activity measuring devices. He was the first formally trained health physicist.

Health physics is a profession devoted to the protection of people and the environment from the harmful effects of radiation, thus providing for the utilization of radiation for the benefit of mankind.

Roscoe l koontz invention

The profession, as we know it, began during World War II when the tremendous power available from nuclear energy was first being developed for weapons. The radiation hazards encountered during the early years of atomic energy were solved by the cooperation of physicists, chemists, biologists, engineers, and physicians.

From this endeavor emerged the interdisciplinary specialty known as "health physics."

Roscoe L. Koontz was born in St. Louis, Missouri in Graduating from Vashon High School in St. Louis, Koontz spent three years in the army during Worl