Edward J. Hoffman
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Edward J. Hoffman
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Edward Joseph Hoffman helped invent the first human PET scanner, a commonly used whole-body scanning procedure for detecting diseases like cancer. Hoffman, with Michel Ter-Pogossian and Michael E. Phelps, developed the Positron Emission Tomography scanner in 1973. Hoffman was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He earned a BS chemistry from Saint Louis University in 1963, his Ph.D. in Nuclear Chemistry from Washington University in St. Louis in 1970 and completed postgraduate work in nuclear chemistry
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American scientist (1942–2004)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_J._Hoffman
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2023-03-25T14:12:43Z
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