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Roscoe L. Koontz
was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1922. He graduated from Vashon High
School in St. Louis. His college education at Stowes Teachers College was
interrupted by a three-year hitch in the U.S. Army during World War II.
While in the army, he received technical training through a special pre-engineering
army training program at West Virginia State College. Upon discharge from
the army in 1946, he returned to Tennessee State University and graduated
with a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry.
Roscoe L. Koontz
was among the first formally trained health physicists through his
participation in the first Atomic Energy Health Physics Fellowship Training
Program, sponsored at the University of Rochester in 1948. He designed
a pinhole gamma ray camera and collimator and helped to design and fabricate
automatic air and water sampling equipment and radiation activity measuring
devices.
Health physics
became a recognized profession around 1942. When Roscoe L. Koontz entered
the field, there were few rules and guidelines and procedures for health
physicists to follow. Together with their instructors, the early students,
like Koontz, originated many of today's practices, instrumentation and
techniques to protect people from the hazards of ionizing radiation.
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