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WESLEY L. NYBORG
Pages 196-205

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From page 197...
... His physics dissertation was titled "High Frequency Whistles: Edge Tones and Resonance," with adviser Harold K Schilling, consummate teacher and researcher and a future dean of the Graduate College at Penn State.
From page 198...
... His students were many. Those coauthoring papers with Wes in his favorite Journal of the Acoustical Society of America included Douglas L
From page 199...
... Taylor Lecture Award from the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP) , with a lecture titled "Assuring the Safety of Medical Diagnostic Ultrasound." Wes was a fellow of the ASA, AIUM, and American Association for the Advancement of Science and a life member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
From page 200...
... As a UVM example, in 1968 Wes taught the course Biological Physics (Physics 122) from his own notes as used and then tested by students so that extensive revision occurred before his book based on these notes came out, Intermediate Biophysical Mechanics (Cummings Publishing Co., 1975)
From page 201...
... Mason of Bell Labs of whose own experimental methods Wes made skillful use. These latter methods included applying so-called resonant Mason horns of solid metal machined into various profiles for achieving high acoustic pressure levels in media such as gassy liquids, single plant cells, and soft solids.
From page 202...
... In this regard, Wes's true identity as a soft-spoken but firmly moral exemplar to the medical ultrasound bioeffects research community begins to emerge, in the best traditions of "engineers and scientists behaving well" under difficult circumstances. As argued below, his name can thus be added to that short list of such exemplars maintained at NAE's Online Ethics Center/Center for Engineering, Ethics, and Society (OEC/CEES)
From page 203...
... Digging even deeper, it can be seen that Wes has left a legacy not only of these three NCRP reports and all his publications and presentations preceding and supporting them, plus a fire-tested way of developing consensus under difficult conditions, but also an institutional infrastructure at the NCRP for accommodating what now-unknown future research discoveries will reveal in medical ultrasound bioeffects. For research results on the action of ultrasound on biological media is a potential two-edged sword cutting out new image contrast and other interaction mechanisms beneficial for practical and efficient use of ultrasound in medicine but also mechanisms yet to be discovered for ultrasonically producing permanent or delayed damage in biological tissue.
From page 204...
... , founded by former NAE President Bill Wulf. This giving brought the center to life, and and also provided support to keep the NAE's Online Ethics Center (OEC)
From page 205...
... Though Wes was too modest to so recommend himself, he was indeed a role model for other engineers and scientists to emulate. In this sense of an exemplary vision of a higher moral order for practicing the engineering profession today, the legacy Wes Nyborg passed on to us will have its greatest impact.


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