Nuclear Pioneer Award

At its annual meeting in Dallas on June 28, the Society of Nuclear Medicine presented its Third Nuclear Pioneers Award to Glenn T. Seaborg, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. At the same time, the award honored the memory of two of Dr. Seaborg’s former associates at the University of California at Berkeley, the late Joseph G. Hamilton and Bertram Low Beer, both of whom made significant contributions to nuclear medicine. The purpose of the award is to pay tribute to persons in allied fields who have made nuclear medicine possible and simultaneously to honor those who, because of death or retirement, no longer participate in nuclear‐medicine activities. The first such award was made in 1960 to Edward Teller and honored the memory of Ernest O. Lawrence; the second was given to George de Hevesy as a memorial to Marie Curie and Henri Becquerel.

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