H. Wade Patterson Memorial Award
The Accelerator Section will award the first annual H. Wade Patterson Memorial Award at the annual meeting of the Health Physics Society (HPS) in San Diego this summer. The award is for the best student poster or oral presentation in accelerator health physics or an accelerator-related topic at the 2003 HPS annual meeting. The award winner will receive a certificate and a $250 check from the Accelerator Section.
The award has been established by the Accelerator Section to honor the late H. Wade Patterson, one of the section's founders. Students must be in attendance at the HPS annual meeting to be eligible for award consideration. Entries will be evaluated on equal factors of the quality of the science and the relevance of the topic. The winning student will be recognized at the Accelerator Section special session at the annual meeting.
Interested students (either graduate or undergraduate) must provide their poster or oral presentation material in advance, either in hard copy or electronically, no later than June 27, 2003, to Joe McDonald, who is the chair of the Patterson Memorial Award Committee, at the following address:
Joseph C. McDonald
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Mail Stop K3-53
P.O. Box 999
Richland, WA 99352
joe.mcdonald@pnl.gov
phone: 509-375-3974
Other Patterson Memorial Award Committee members are Bob Casey, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and Tom Gesell, Idaho State University.
The late H. Wade Patterson was a past president of the HPS and also served as editor of the journal Health Physics. Wade was instrumental in the founding of the Accelerator Section in 1990 and served as the section's first president. Wade is generally regarded as the first professional accelerator health physicist. He coauthored the classic text, Accelerator Health Physics, with Ralph Thomas. His notable career at the University of California, both at Berkeley and Livermore, spanned five decades.