Michael E. Phelps
Michael E. Phelps ( born August 24, 1939 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American mathematician and chemist and is considered one of the fathers of positron emission tomography (PET).
Phelps finished in 1965 a degree in mathematics and chemistry at Western Washington University with a bachelor's degree. In 1970 he received his doctorate at Washington University in St. Louis in chemistry. His academic career began at Washington University Medical School ( 1970-1975 ). From 1975 to 1976 Phelps at the University of Pennsylvania worked in Philadelphia.
He's Norton Simon Professor and directs the UCLA Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he has worked since 1976. He actively researches on various medical specialties. In addition, he is director of the Crump Institute for Molecular Imaging, Professor of Biomathematics, director of the Institute for Molecular Medicine and Head of the Department of Nuclear Medicine.
Phelps has received numerous scientific honors, including the 1987 Rosenthal Foundation Award of the American College of Physicians, the George Hevesy Prize From (twice) by the Von Hevesy Foundation, 1984 Sarah L. Poiley Memorial Award of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1983 the Paul Aebersold Award from the Society of Nuclear Medicine, received the 1998 Enrico Fermi Award, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1999 and received the 2001 Charles F. Kettering prize from the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation, and the 2007 Massry prize.
He has published over 520 scientific papers.
The first positron emission tomograph was completed in January 1974. The results of his work he published in 1975 along with the other ' father ' of the PET, Michel Ter - Pogossian. Likewise, Phelps was involved in the production of the first commercial PET system, which was delivered to the University of California in December 1976.