Background
Steve Webb was born and grew up at Swindon in Wiltshire.
Steve Webb was born and grew up at Swindon in Wiltshire.
He studied at Imperial College London, where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science (1st class honours) in 1970 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1973.
He is currently Emeritus Professor of Physics at the Joint Department of Physics in the Institute of Cancer Research and the Royal Marsden Hospital. The subject of his doctoral studies was cosmic-ray physics. Early on he worked in the field of Connecticut. Webb and his colleagues built a Connecticut scanner by cannibalizing a radioisotope scanner.
He then moved on to research in nuclear medicine, with one of the hospital"s first Positron Emission Tomography scanners (named MUPPET) housed in a freight container on a lorry in the car park.
Arguably, Webb"s most important work was on radiation therapy and included treatment planning and intensity-modulated and image-guided radiotherapies. In 1989 Webb published an important paper on radiotherapy treatment planning (Phys Medical Biol 34 1349) and went on to publish more than 150 papers on radiotherapy.
In 1996 Webb was granted a professorship at the Royal Marsden and two years later he became head of the Joint Department of Physics. As Editor-in-Chief of the journal Physics in Medicine & Biology, Webb has been the journal"s most published author
Webb retired in September 2011.
In September 2014.