Henry Louis Gibson (1906–1992) was a British-born American pioneering medical photographer. He was born in

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and died in

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Career

Gibson was for many years editor and consultant in medical, biological, scientific, and technical

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for the

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Company. He received his

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degree in

physics Physics is the natural science that studies matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge which r ...

from the

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. He was a president of the Biological Photographic Association (renamed th
Biocommunications Association
. He was made a Fellow of the association and in 1960 received its highest honor, the Louis Schmidt Award for his outstanding contribution to scientific photography. He was an expert in medical uses of

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radiation and had pioneered its use in detecting

breast cancer Breast cancer is cancer that develops from breast tissue. Signs of breast cancer may include a lump in the breast, a change in breast shape, dimpling of the skin, milk rejection, fluid coming from the nipple, a newly inverted nipple, or a re ...

Publications

*''The Photography of Patients'' (1952) *''Copying and Duplicating Medical Subjects and Radiographs'' (1953) *''Perfecting your Enlarging'' (1961) Chilton Co., Book Division *''Light through the Lens'' (1968) Christopher Pub. House *''Close-up Photography and Photomacrography'' (1969) Eastman Kodak Co., Professional and Finishing Markets Division *''Stars through the Apple Tree'' (1972) Christopher Pub. House *''Medical Photography; clinical-ultraviolet-infrared'' (1973) Eastman Kodak Co., Professional and Finishing Markets Division *''Photography by Infrared'' (1978), Wiley *''The Biological Photographic Association, its Half Century'' (1981), Biological Photographic Association, Inc.

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Pioneers of Invisible Radiation Photography: Lou Gibson
{{DEFAULTSORT:Gibson, Henry Louis 1906 births 1992 deaths People from Truro Medical photographers 20th-century American photographers British emigrants to the United States

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