Hall Eric J
Center for Radiological Research, Columbia University, New York.
Radiat Res. 2017 Apr;187(4):406-412. doi: 10.1667/RR001CC.1.
Gioacchino Failla was initially appointed to operate the radon plant at Memorial Hospital in 1916. What to most people would have been a part-time temporary position was to him a career. He was not satisfied to simply fabricate radon seeds, he wanted to understand the physics and biology of the radiation emitted by the progeny of radium. His was not the first medical physics group in the United States, though it was one of the earliest, but it was the first to put such emphasis on the biological effects. After more than 28 years at Memorial Hospital, Failla moved his research group to Columbia University Medical Center and his pioneering work, blending physics and biology, has continued to date at Columbia by those that he trained or inspired, under three directors that followed him.
乔亚基诺·法伊拉于1916年首次被任命在纪念医院运营氡设备。对大多数人来说这可能只是一个兼职临时职位，但对他而言却是一份事业。他并不满足于简单地制造氡籽，而是想要了解镭的子体所发射辐射的物理和生物学特性。他所在的团队并非美国首个医学物理团队，尽管是最早的团队之一，但却是首个如此重视生物效应的团队。在纪念医院工作了28年多之后，法伊拉将他的研究团队迁至哥伦比亚大学医学中心，他将物理与生物学相结合的开创性工作，至今仍由他培养或激励的人在哥伦比亚大学延续，先后有三位主任接过他的工作。
