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'''Hal Oscar Anger''' ([[May 20]],[[1920]]—[[October 31]], [[2005]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[electrical engineering|electrical engineer]] and [[Biophysics|biophysicist]] at Donner Laboratory, [[University of California, Berkeley]], known for his invention of the [[Gamma camera|Anger camera]].
Anger was born in [[Denver, Colorado]]. In 1957, he invented the [[Scintillation (physics)|scintillation]] camera, known also as the [[gamma camera]] or Anger camera. Anger also developed the [[well counter]], widely used in laboratory tests to measure radioactivity in samples. In all, Anger held 15 patents, many of them for work at the [[Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory|Ernest O. Laurence Radiation Laboratory]]. Anger died in [[Berkeley, California]].
==References==
* [http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/1727.html Who Named It article on Anger]
* [http://www.atomicmuseum.com/tour/nm1d9.cfm Atomic Museum article on Anger]
* [http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/11/13/ap/tech/mainD8DRL6P80.shtml CBS News Online, "Anger, Gamma Camera Inventor, dies at 85" published November 13, 2005]
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