Rudolf Wolf (medical physicist)

Rudolf Wolf (born August 30, 1929 in Frankfurt am Main ; † May 24, 2010 ) was a German medical physicist .

Life

Wolf studied physics, chemistry and mathematics and was awarded a Dr. rer. nat. PhD. He worked at the former Institute of Clinical Radiology in Mainz and received his habilitation in 1966 by the Dr. rer. nat. et med. habil. the Venia legendi for the subject Medical Physics of the Medical Faculty. From 1969 to 1973 he was President of the German Society for Medical Physics .

In 1971 he was appointed adjunct professor; In 1989 he was appointed university professor at the Medical Faculty of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz . From 1973 to 1979 he was dean of the clinical institute department and from 1973 to 1978 chairman of the then newly founded Concilium medicinale . He was vice dean of the medical department, from 1991 dean. He was also a member of the University Senate and the University Assembly. He was a member of the German Society for Nuclear Medicine .

In 2004, with the historical work Das St.-Georg-Stift zu Limburg an der Lahn in the 16th century: Investigations into the personal, social and economic history in Mainz, he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD.

In 1988 he was appointed Knight of the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher by Cardinal Grand Master Maximilien Cardinal de Fürstenberg and invested in Aachen Cathedral on May 14, 1988 by Franz Cardinal Hengsbach , Grand Prior of the German Lieutenancy, and later promoted to Commandery .

Honors

• Admission to the Royal Society of Medicine
• Admission to the Hospital Physicist's Association
• Golden Ring of Honor from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (1994)
• Honorary membership of the German Society for Medical Physics (1995)
• Walter Kreienberg Medal of the Academy for Medical Training in Rhineland-Palatinate (1999)

Fonts

• For back diffusion of electrons in the energy range from 20 to 100 keV , Mainz 1960 (dissertation)
• Possibilities and limits of scintigraphic examination methods , Mainz 1966 (habilitation)
• Nuclear Medicine in Hematolgy , 1968, together with Josef Fischer
• The St.-Georg-Stift zu Limburg an der Lahn in the 16th century: Investigations into the personal, social and economic history , Mainz 2004 (dissertation)

literature

• International Medical Who's Who , 1980, Volumes 1-2, p. 1303
• August Ludwig Degener, Walter Habel: Who is who? , Volume 29, p. 1496
• Bettina Bartz, Gerhard Lüdtke, Hans Strodel: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar Edition 2003, Volume 2–3, p. 3754

Web links

• Obituary Prof. Rudolf Wolf. Mainz University Medical Center, May 26, 2010.