School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
TAGG Research Centre, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
Phys Med. 2020 Feb;70:85-95. doi: 10.1016/j.ejmp.2020.01.001. Epub 2020 Jan 25.
Medical physics and other contributions from physics to medicine are relatively well known, if not well documented in Ireland. Less well known are contributions from medicine to the development of physics, which can and do occur. This paper addresses examples of all three. The methods employed include documentary research and interviews with those who share(d) the stage in the area. Documentary evidence for historical aspects of medical physics over the last century are relatively sparse and incomplete. Notwithstanding this, they can and do enable a picture to be built up of how the arrangements in place now have come about, particularly when they are accompanied by mature recollections of the participants. Good critically assessed and accessible sources have been identified covering the seventeenth to nineteenth century material presented. Examples are presented based on the work of significant contributors, each with strong Irish connections, including Robert Boyle, Erwin Schrödinger, Fearghus O'Foghludha, and Edith Stoney the first female medical physicist. Their contributions are striking and continue to be relevant now. The findings provide a rich context and heritage for medical physics in Ireland and in the international community. They will include the contemporary period in a second paper, Part 2 of this study.
医学物理学以及物理学在医学领域的其他贡献在爱尔兰已经广为人知，尽管相关文献记录并不完善。鲜为人知的是，医学对物理学发展的贡献，事实上，这种贡献是存在的，而且是多方面的。本文将对这三种情况进行举例说明。本文所采用的方法包括文献研究和对该领域相关人士的采访。过去一个世纪以来，医学物理学的历史文献相对较少且不完整。尽管如此，当这些文献与参与者的成熟回忆相结合时，仍然可以、而且确实能够描绘出现在的安排是如何形成的。对于呈现的十七至十九世纪的材料，已经确定了经过良好批判性评估且易于获取的来源。本文基于几位具有强烈爱尔兰联系的重要贡献者的工作，包括罗伯特·波义耳、埃尔温·薛定谔、费格斯·奥弗拉赫蒂和艾迪斯·斯通尼，她是第一位女性医学物理学家。他们的贡献令人瞩目，而且至今仍然具有重要意义。这些发现为爱尔兰和国际医学物理学界提供了丰富的背景和遗产。在第二部分，本文将涵盖当代时期。
