Hal Anger

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Hal Oscar Anger (May 20, 1920—October 31, 2005) was an American electrical engineer and biophysicist at Donner Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, known for his invention of the Anger camera.

Anger was born in Denver, Colorado. In 1957, he invented the 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 Ernest O. Laurence Radiation Laboratory. Anger died in Berkeley, California.

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• Who Named It article on Anger
• Atomic Museum article on Anger
• CBS News Online, "Anger, Gamma Camera Inventor, dies at 85" published November 13, 2005