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When Ralph Thomas and I started this School with the first course in 1975, I was a little stirred and shy because it seemed to me a rather large responsibility to introduce Health Physics to the “E. Majorana” Centre. This authoritative and very influential centre welcomes eminent scientific authorities — several Nobel laureates just a few days ago sat in these very chairs — to discuss problems and theories at the frontier of scientific research. Health Physics has often been considered the Cinderella of science and there has been a tendency to see health physicists as mere “surveyors” who limit themselves to practical applications of knowledge and methods developed in other branches of science.
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Rindi, A. (1980). Opening of the Course. In: Thomas, R.H., Perez-Mendez, V. (eds) Advances in Radiation Protection and Dosimetry in Medicine. Ettore Majorana International Science Series, vol 2. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-1715-0_1
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