ERNEST J. STERNGLASS, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of Radiology
Home Address :
University of Pittsburgh 4601 Fifth Avenue, Apt. 824
School of Medicine Pittsburgh, PA, 15213
Department of Radiology (412) 687-7543
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,15261
ejsternglass[@]comcast.net
EDUCATION
B. E.E., Electrical Engineering,Cornell University 1944
M.S., Engineering Physics, Cornell University, 1950
Ph. D. Engineering Physics, Cornell University, 1953
HONORS
Vice-President, Cornell Chapter, Eta Kappa Nu, Electrical
Engineering Honorary Society, 1943-44
McMullen Research Fellowship, Cornell University 1949-51
Sigma Xi , National Research Honorary Society
Sigma Pi Sigma, National Physics Honorary Society
Fellow, American Physical Society
President, Federation of American Scientists, Pittsburgh
Chapter, 1962-63
Westinghouse Research Fellowship, Institute of Theoretical
Physics, University of Paris, 1957-58.
Westinghouse Research Fellowship, Institute of Theoretical
Physics, Stanford University, 1966-1967
Citation for Excellence, Scientific Exhibit, Annual Meeting of
the Radiological Society of North America, 1979
Citation for Excellence, Scientific Exhibit, Annual Meeting of
the American Roentgen Ray Society, 1981
George Brussel Award for Public Service,1982
Honorary Professor Emeritus of Radiology, University of
Pittsburgh,1983
Leo Goodman Award for Public Service, 1985
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Professor Emeritus of Radiology, Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 1983-
present.
Adjunct Professor of History and Philosophy of Science,
Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana
University, Bloomington, Indiana (1979-1984).
Professor of Radiology and Consultant, Imaging Division,
Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh, School of
Medicine (1974-1983).
Professor of Radiology and Director, Laboratory of Radiological Physics and Engineering, Department of Radiology,
University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, 1967 - 1974.
Professor of Radiological Physics, Department of Radiation
Health, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public
Health, 1967 - 1974.
Visiting Professor, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, 1966 - 1967.
Advisory Physicist and Assistant to the Vice-President for
Research and Development of the Westinghouse Research
Laboratories, and Scientific Director of the Apollo Lunar
Scientific Station Program,Westinghouse Research
Laboratories, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1960 - 1967.
Fellow Scientist, Electronics and Nuclear Physics Department Westinghouse Research Laboratories,1958-1960.
Visiting Professor, Institute Henri Poincare, Sorbonne, Paris, France, 1957 -1958.
Research Scientist, Electronics and Nuclear Physics Department, Westinghouse Research Laboratories, 1952-1957.
Research Fellow, Cornell University, 1949 - 1951.
Instructor, Physics Department, George Washington University, Washington, D.C. 1946 - 1947.
Research Engineer, Electricity and Magnetism Department,
U. S. Naval Ordnance Laboratory, White Oak, Maryland, 1946- 1952.
Science Writer, Science Service News Service, Washington, D.C.1946.
Military Service, U. S. Navy, (Radar and Electronics), 1945 - 1946.
Teaching Assistant, Physics Department, Cornell University, 1943-1944.
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
American Physical Society (Fellow)
Radiological Society of North America (Ret.)
American Association of Physicists in Medicine (Ret.)
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Astronomical Society
New York Academy of Sciences
Federation of American Scientists
Philosophy of Science Association
PATENTS
Thirteen patents in the areas of Image Intensifiers for Nuclear Medicine and Astronomy; Television Camera Tubes for Space Astronomy, Night Vision and Radiology; Nuclear Particle Detectors ; Nuclear Reactors for Space Missions; Photo- Multipliers and Computerized Radiography for dose-reduction in diagnostic examinations.
BOOKS
"Low-Level Radiation", Ballantine Books, New York, 1972
"Secret Fallout: Low Level Radiation from Hiroshima to Three- Mile Island", McGraw-Hill Book Co. 1981.
"Before the Big Bang: The Origins of the Universe", Four Walls Eight Windows, New York, 1997.
