Michael E. Phelps

Michael E. Phelps (b. 1939 Cleveland, Ohio) is a professor and a American biophysicist. He perhaps best know for developing the Positron emission tomography (PET) scan in 1975. Phelps earned his B.S. in Chemistry and Mathematics from Western Washington University in 1965, and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Washington University, St. Louis, in 1970. He joined the faculty of Washington University School of Medicine in 1970. From 1975-1976, Phelps was a member of the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1976, he moved to the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA where he is currently Chief of the Division of Nuclear Medicine.

External Link

 * UCLA faculty website
 * Enrico Fermi Award Profile

Michael E. Phelps