Health Physicist

Job Description

In research, health physicistsinvestigate principles by which radiation interacts with matter and living systems. Health physicists also study environmental levels of radioactivity and the effects of radiation on biological systems on earth and in space.Health physics is a term which came into being in the Plutonium Project about 1942, and which has now come to be used almost universally to meanthe science or profession of radiation control in all its many aspects, including technology, philosophy, economics, labor relations, public relations

Keyskills :
radiation monitoringhealth care servicesquantum field theoryhigh energy physicsradiation biologyhealthhealth physicslinear accelerators