Invitation to Submit Student Papers for the H. Wade Patterson Memorial Award
The Accelerator Section will be awarding the second annual H. Wade Patterson Memorial Award at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Health Physics Society (HPS) in Washington, D.C. The award is for the best student poster or oral presentation on accelerator health physics or an accelerator-related topic at the 2004 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.
An interested student (either graduate or undergraduate) should submit his/her abstract initially through the HPS Program Committee (see the call for papers) and then provide a copy of the presentation either in hard copy or electronically no later than June 11, 2004, to Joe McDonald, chair of the H. Wade 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
e-mail: joe.mcdonald@pnl.gov
phone: (509) 375-3974
The late H. Wade Patterson was a past president of the HPS and also served as editor of the HPS 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 co-authored 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.