Pulitzer Scholarship Leonard Prize Janeway Medal Caldwell Medal Gold Medal of the Radiological Society of North America Ewing Society Medal American Cancer Society Annual National Award Judd Cancer Award
Gioacchino Failla (19 July 1891 – 15 December 1961) was an Italian-born American physicist. A pioneer in both
biophysics and
radiobiology, he was particularly noted for his work on the role of radiation as a cause of cancer and genetic mutation. He was born in
Castelbuono in the
Province of Palermo and emigrated with his family to the United States in 1906. After his retirement from
Columbia University's
Center for Radiological Research in 1960, he was appointed Senior Scientist Emeritus in the Radiological Physics Division of the
Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. He was killed in a car accident near the laboratory at the age of 70.[1][2]
Professional service
Committee on Radiation Units, Standardization and Protection
Pulitzer Scholarship, awarded to graduates of grammar school that were examined for eligibility to receive one of 10 scholarships offered annually by
Joseph Pulitzer. The subjects included in the written examination were grammar, dictation, reading, composition, American history, geography, and arithmetic.
1939, Janeway Medal[3] of the American Radium Society, "Some Aspects of the Biological Action of Ionizing Radiation"
Katherine Berkan Judd Cancer Award from
MSKCC for cancer research for an investigator who has made major advances toward the control and cure of cancer.
^Failla, Gioacchino. (14 April 1925). Stopcock. U.S. Patent No. 1,533,793. Washington, DC: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
^Failla, Gioacchino. (8 April 1930). Method and means for applying radium emanation. U.S. Patent No. 1,753,287. Washington, DC: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
^Rose, John Ernest & Gioacchino Failla. (17 April 1934). Method and means for treatment by radiations. U.S. Patent No. 1,954,868. Washington, DC: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
^Failla, Gioacchino. (30 July 1935). Means for effecting therapeutic implantations. U.S. Patent No. 2,009,393. Washington, DC: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
^Failla, Gioacchino. (29 September 1937). Methods and means for testing radiant energy. U.S. Patent No. 2,094,318. Washington, DC: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
^Failla, Gioacchino. (2 November 1937). Testing method and apparatus. U.S. Patent No. 2,097,760. Washington, DC: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
^Failla, Gioacchino. (17 November 1953). Radiation measuring device. U.S. Patent No. 2,659,826. Washington, DC: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
^Failla, Gioacchino. (6 July 1954). Radiation meter." U.S. Patent No. 2,683,222. Washington, DC: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
^Failla, Gioacchino. (17 January 1956). Radiation detection device. U.S. Patent No. 2,731,568. Washington, DC: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
^Rose, John Ernest, Failla, Gioacchino, &
Francis Rudolph Shonka. (24 October 1961). Method of using and manufacturing plastic equivalent to organic materials. U.S. Patent No. 3,005,794. Washington, DC: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Filed: 8 August 1958.