Background
Sowell, Gene H. was born on September 30, 1933 in Carroll County, Indiana, United States. Son of Henry J. and Mary C. (Watson) Sowell.
Sowell, Gene H. was born on September 30, 1933 in Carroll County, Indiana, United States. Son of Henry J. and Mary C. (Watson) Sowell.
Graduate, Kentucky State Police Academy, 1954. Bachelor of Science in Physics cum laude, Murray (Kentucky) State University, 1970. Master of Science in Medical Physics, University Kentucky, 1971.
State trooper, Kentucky Department State Police, Frankfort, 1954-1960; international sample coordinator, Airco Chemicals & Plastics, Calvert City, Kentucky, 1960-1970; medical physicist department radiation therapy, U. Kentucky, Lexington, 1971-1974; medical physicist department radiation therapy, Perkins Radiation Therapy Center, Baton Rouge, 1974-1976; director medical physics, Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center, Knoxville, Tennessee, since 1976; director medical physics, Thompson Cancer Survival Center, Knoxville, since 1988. Consultant on medical physics to 15 area hospitals, Knoxville, 1976-1990. Founder Medical Data, Inc., radiation therapy computer programs (sold to Honeywell Corporation), 1982.
With United States Army, 1957-1959. Member American Association Physicists in Medicine (legislation and regulations committee), Health Physics Society, Society Nuclear Medicine, American College Radiology, Alpha Chi, Sigma Pi Sigma.
Married Mary B. Copeland, May 14, 1956 (divorced 1983). Children: Taz J. (deceased), Laura J. Sowell Snodgrass. Married Nadine C. Conner, December 22, 1984.