UCL DEPARTMENT OF MEDICAL PHYSICS AND BIOENGINEERING

Sidney Russ Prize

Sidney Russ (1879-1963) was appointed as physicist to the Middlesex Hospital in 1913. In 1920, he was appointed to the newly instituted Joel Chair of Physics Applied to Medicine at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School. This was the first Chair of Medical Physics in the world. He was awarded the CBE in 1931 for services to radium work and was an original member of the King Edward's Hospital Fund radium committee which kept a supply of radium at the Middlesex Hospital for use throughout London during the Second World War. He retired in 1946, after pioneering a new scientific approach to precision measurement in radiology.

Our department was created in 1987, when the Middlesex Hospital Medical School Department of Physics Applied to Medicine merged with the UCL's Department of Medical Physics. We now award a prize in Prof Russ' name to our most outstanding final year undergraduate. The prize has been endowed thanks to a very kind and generous gift made by Dr. Dorothy Collins, the daughter of Prof. Sidney Russ.

Mathew Elameer receiving the 2012 Sidney Russ prize from our Intercataled Student Tutor, Prof. Clare Elwell.