Gustav Peter Bucky

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Gustav Peter Bucky (born September 3, 1880 in Leipzig , † February 19, 1963 in New York ) was a radiologist , physicist , scientist and inventor . The bucky screen on X-ray machines and the bucky table are named after him.

Life

From Easter 1892 to Easter 1901 Bucky attended the König-Albert-Gymnasium in his hometown, which he left with the school leaving certificate. He then studied physics at the University of Geneva . From 1902 he studied medicine at the University of Leipzig at the request of his parents and graduated in 1906 with the state examination. In 1908 he joined the prestigious central radiology institute of the Rudolf Virchow Hospital in Berlin and in 1910 he started his own business as a specialist in radiology . This was followed by further positions as a senior physician in hospitals and field hospitals and university clinics in Berlin. In 1923, Bucky emigrated to the United States , where he received American citizenship in 1929 . He worked in various New York clinics until 1930 and also conducted scientific research in his private institute. However, he continued to publish his research results in German and continued to give lectures in Germany. In 1930 he returned to Berlin and took over the management of the X-ray Institute at the Rudolf Virchow Hospital. In 1933, Bucky resigned his office in Germany and returned to New York. He continued practicing and researching as a professor in various radiological institutions and universities.

Bucky gained particular fame with his invention of the Bucky diaphragm , a scattered radiation grid that filters out unwanted secondary radiation and significantly increases the sharpness of the X-ray image . Bucky began work on this in 1908. In 1913, Bucky reported on his results at the Berlin Congress of the German X-ray Society, but without any significant response. In 1915 he patented his invention in the USA. There it was picked up, put into practice and further developed by Hollis Elmer Potter . Other scientific contributions Bucky to X-ray technology dealt with the Siederöhre , the border-ray tube , the Bucky table (a flexible adjustable X-ray table), the surface treatment , the dosimetry , the radiation protection , as well as diathermy and photography with automatic metering . However, he always focused on the use of X-rays in medicine.

Gustav Bucky was married to Frieda, geb. Sarasohn (1882–1974), who then called herself Frida Sarsen-Bucky in the USA and was best known for composing children's songs. Her son was Peter A. Bucky (1912-1997), who was also a radiologist, but was best known for his book The Private Albert Einstein , in which he described his father's friendship with Albert Einstein and his conversations and encounters with Einstein.

Fonts

  • Gustav Bucky: Instructions for Diathermy Treatment. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin, Vienna 1921
  • Gustav Bucky: The X-rays and their application. Teubner Publishing House, Leipzig 1918
  • Gustav Bucky, Otto Glasser, Olga Becker-Manheimer: Border radiation therapy. Publishing house S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1928
  • Gustav Bucky, August Becker, Max Brenzinger: Textbook of radiation therapy. Teubner Publishing House, Leipzig 1924

literature

  • Karin Bormacher: Gustav Bucky (1880-1963) - Biobibliogrophie of a radiologist and inventor. Dissertation Free University of Berlin, 1967.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ König Albert-Gymnasium (Royal High School until 1900) in Leipzig: Student album 1880-1904 / 05 , Friedrich Gröber, Leipzig 1905
personal data
SURNAME Bucky, Gustav Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American radiologist, physicist, scientist and inventor
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH 19th February 1963
Place of death New York , USA