Boyce Worthley OrationBoyce Worthley was one of Australia's most respected hospital physicists. For 40 years, from 1942, he provided medical physics advice and services to the Radiotherapy Department of the Royal Adelaide Hospital. He was a first rate physicist - creative, innovative and fiercely independent - and revolutionised treatment planning and dosimetry in Adelaide for X- and gamma-ray sources. In 2004 it was nominated and supported that the former Adelaide hospital
physicist B. W. Worthley, as the distinguished scientist to be
memorialised in the title of the proposed annual ARPS Memorial Lecture.
Since then at each of the ARPS national conference a section of the conference has been dedicated to the Boyce Worthley Oration. |
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Year |
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Talk name |
Presenter |
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2022 |
17th |
Optimisation – Risk Management in Theory and Practice |
Dr. Carl-Magnus Larsson |
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2021 |
POSTPONED to 2022 |
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2020 |
POSTPONED to 2021 |
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2019 |
16th |
A controversy that needs to be resolved |
Donald Higson |
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2018 |
15th |
Prudence and conservatisam in radiation protection |
Roger Coates |
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2017 |
14th |
A Radiation Protection View of Australia and ARPS: A View from Across the Pond with Some Insights for Discussions |
George Anastas |
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2016 |
13th |
Operating Uranium Mines |
Sharon Paulka |
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2015 |
12th |
With ARPS turning 40, do we need to look back? Will the lessons of the past still have a place in the future? |
Paul Cardew |
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2014 |
11th |
‘Drawing the line’: A risk communication perspective |
Professor Rodney Croft |
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2013 |
10th |
A Physicist's History of Mining of Uranium and other Radioactive Ores in Australia |
Mark Sonter |
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2012 |
9th |
The Early History and Subsequent Highlights of the ARPS |
Dr. Ronald Rosen |
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2011 |
8th |
The evolution of the system of radiation protection |
Peter Burns |
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2010 |
7th |
More Radiation for Better Health? (Deliberations of a Medical Physicist) |
Professor Eva Bezak |
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2009 |
6th |
People involved in radiation research and protection - An historical perspective |
Bill Toussaint |
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2008 |
5th |
The Environmental Legacy of Nuclear Weapon Development and Cleaning Up |
Dr. Keith Lokan |
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2007 |
4th |
The control and minimisation of exposures to ionising radiation |
David Woods |
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2006 |
3rd |
The seven ages of health physics |
Rob Robotham |
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2005 |
2nd |
Caging the Tiger |
Ray de Groot |
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2004 |
1st |
The early years of hospital physics in Adelaide: Some recollections |
Bob Fry |