Background
Eugene Wilson Caldwell was born on December 3, 1870 in Savannah, Missouri, United States; the son of W. W. and Camilla (Kellogg) Caldwell. In his early boyhood, his parents moved to Kansas, in which state he grew up.
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The Practical Application of the Röntgen Rays in Therapeutics and Diagnosis
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Eugene Wilson Caldwell
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After attending the public school, he studied electrical engineering at the University of Kansas. During his university studies he assisted Prof. Lucien O. Blake in his experiments on submarine telephony and gained the high praise of his teacher for his ingenuity.
Career
After his graduation as an electrical engineer in 1892 Caldwell went to New York and entered the service of the New York Telephone Company. In 1898 he had occasion to buy a second-hand Roentgen apparatus. He took such an intense interest in the new branch of sciences, foreseeing its great value for medicine and surgery, that he entered the University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College to study medicine, obtaining the degree of M. D. in 1905. In the meantime he had been appointed director of the Edward N. Gibbs Memorial X-Ray Laboratory which post he held until 1908.
In collaboration with Wm. A. Pusey he published The Practical Application of the Roentgen Rays in Therapeutics and Diagnosis (1903). During the World War he was commissioned major in the Medical Corps.
He died a martyr to science. So intense was his application to the X-ray work that he contracted serious injuries which led to his death in 1918.
Achievements
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His inventive genius enabled him to make many valuable improvements on the Roentgen apparatus, among which may be mentioned an electrical interrupter, a new induction coil, an X-ray generator with valve tube rectification, a moving grid for the elimination of secondary radiation in Roentgenography, and various types of X-ray tubes.
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The Practical Application of the Röntgen Rays in Therapeutics and Diagnosis
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The Practical Application of the Röntgen Rays in Therapeutics and Diagnosis
Membership
Caldwell was a member of the New York Academy of Medicine; of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University; of the Roentgen Ray Society of London; of the German Roentgen Society; and of a number of other scientific societies.
Connections
He was married in 1913 to Elizabeth Perkins.
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