GRAPHIC:  University of Chicago Magazine
Retrospective
Photography by Stephen Lewellyn, AB'48
 
IMAGE:  This cobalt-60 rotational therapy machine was used in the Argonne Cancer Research Hospital on Ellis Avenue, built  in 1953. Lester Skaggs (center), PhD'39, now radiation professor emeritus, was in charge of the machine, designed by electrical engineer Donald Davison (left) and the late surgery professor emeritus Lawrence Lanzl.
 
This cobalt-60 rotational therapy machine was used in the Argonne Cancer Research Hospital on Ellis Avenue, built in 1953. Lester Skaggs (center), PhD’39, now radiation professor emeritus, was in charge of the machine, designed by electrical engineer Donald Davison (left) and the late surgery professor emeritus Lawrence Lanzl.