The William G. Myers, MD, PhD Collection at the Medical Heritage Center (MHC) of The Ohio State University documents the personal life and professional career of this pioneer in nuclear medicine. At approximately 150 linear feet, it is one of the MHC’s flagship collections. Myers (1908-1988), a faculty member at the OSU College of Medicine, taught and researched for more than forty years and made many contributions to nuclear medicine. In 1948, he introduced cobalt-60 as a substitute for radium in cancer treatment, and in 1952, he and Benjamin H. Colmery introduced gold-198 as a replacement for radon-222 in permanent seed implantation for cancer therapy. Myers was also instrumental to the development of radioisotopes for diagnostic and investigative medicine. He introduced more radioisotopes into nuclear medicine than any other individual—eleven in all. The image above shows Myers with gold-198 seeds on nylon thread (Photograph courtesy of The Ohio State University Photo Archives).
This web exhibit accompanies the William G. Myers PhD, MD, Collection which resides at the Medical Heritage Center at the Prior Health Science Library at The Ohio State University. In the future, a finding aid for the collection will be available online from the Medical Heritage Center home page. Other images of Myers materials will also be available on the MHC Digital Library, expected to launch in June 2006. More information about Dr. Myers and the William G. Myers MD, PhD, Collection is available at the Medical Heritage Center at the Prior Health Science Library
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