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When I entered medical physics in 1958 there were fewer than 100 in the U.S. and I could see many opportunities to apply my knowledge of nuclear physics.

Medical physicists work in cooperation with doctors. A few medical physicists devote their time to research and teaching. A few get involved with administrative duties.

In the big experiments, Atlas and CMS, we have something like 3,000 scientists each, and over 60 nationalities.

I am sure that I have been much more useful to society as a medical physicist.

The growth of technology is such that it is not possible today for a nuclear physicist to switch into medical physics without training. The field is now much more technical. More training is needed to do the job.

The fact is all of the most highly successful scientists I know work practically all the time.

Medical physics is an applied area of physics.

Let's try to count the number of Nobel prize-winners that have emerged from scientific centres of excellence like the Weizmann Institute and Haifa's technical university, the Technion. There has to be at least 25.

I have a whole slew of doctors. I can count eight in my phone right now - eight different doctors, all for different parts of my body. I have specialists.

It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.