Background
She was born one of three children on July 10, 1891 in Rockford, Illinois, to Arthur S. Hinkley, a farmer and architect, and Harriet Hinkley.
She was born one of three children on July 10, 1891 in Rockford, Illinois, to Arthur S. Hinkley, a farmer and architect, and Harriet Hinkley.
In 1912, she graduated from Whitman College in Washington with a bachelor"s degree in mathematics and physics.
After a brief stint teaching high school, she was awarded a 1914 fellowship for her master"s degree studies at the University of California. She died, 91 years old, on October 11, 1982. Her research at Memorial Hospital delved into safe doses of medicinal radiation, observing the energy emitted by potential materials for nuclear medicine as well as the amount of radiation absorbed by the body from different sources.
She also studied the potential of synthesized radioactive materials for treating cancer and in other medical research applications.
In 1941 she joined the faculty of Cornell University Medical College as an assistant professor of radiology. The next year, she became an associate professor of radiation physics at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University.
She was promoted to full professor in 1954 and retired in 1960. In 1940, the American Radium Society gave her the Janeway Meda
The following year, she was awarded the Gold Medal of the Radiological Society of North America.
She was elected president of the American Radium Society in 1954. In 1963, the American College of Radiology honored her with its Gold Meda
She was one of the first members of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine.
