Gamma Camera Inventor Dies
Nov 14, 2005 — BERKELEY, Calif., Nov. 14 -- A memorial service will be held Saturday for Hal O. Anger, a pioneer of nuclear medicine widely credited with inventing the gamma camera, who died at at home in Berkeley on Oct. 31. He was 85.
Hal Anger is shown with one of his inventions, the positron scintillation camera, in the 1950s.According to the Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM), which published an obituary of Anger on its Web site, Anger is a "quiet genius" who shaped the future of nuclear medicine....