David E. Kuhl
David Edmund Kuhl ( born October 27, 1929 in St. Louis) is an American nuclear physicians. He is known for pioneering work in tomographic imaging techniques in nuclear medicine.
Kuhl won the Westinghouse as a student talent competition after he injiziierte rats uranium salts and after section made autoradiography recordings. He received his bachelor's degree in physics in 1951 from Temple University in 1955 and received his MD degree from the University of Pennsylvania, followed by residency training ( Internship 1955/56 ). 1956 to 1958 he was with the U.S. Navy, where he led a unit of Nuclear Medicine in the U.S. Naval Hospital in Portsmouth ( Virginia). He then returned to the University of Pennsylvania, where he was first Assistant Instructor (completion of residency in the specialist training for radiologists 1962), then Instructor, 1965 Assistant Professor, 1967 Associate Professor and in 1970 was in radiology finally professor and from 1963 to 1976 Head of the Department of Nuclear Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital. From 1976, he headed the Nuclear Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles ( UCLA), and from 1986 at the University of Michigan ( Professor of Internal Medicine and Radiology ), where he led the PET center. In 2011 he retired.
As a student, he drew attention to himself when he developed shortly after the discovery of the nuclear medicine scanning process by Benedict Cassen improved methods, for which he received an award in 1955. From the late 1950s he developed with engineer Roy Edwards tomographic recording process, both refined and on.
In 1981 he received the Ernst Jung Prize. In 1976 he received the Nuclear Medicine Pioneer Citation and 1995 Georg Charles de Hevesy the Nuclear Medicine Pioneer Award from the Society of Nuclear Medicine, 1989 Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award from the National Institutes of Health and in 1996 the Benedict Cassen price. In 2001 he received the Kettering Prize, the 1996 Outstanding Researcher Award of the Radiological Society of North America and in 2009 the Japan Prize. He holds an honorary doctorate from Loyola University. He was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 1989.