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Jun 28, 1926 New York City, New York, United States Died on 24 Jul 2012 (aged 86)
American Professor of Physiology and Biophysics and Professor of Radiology
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About Robert Ledley
- Robert Steven Ledley (June 28, 1926 – July 24, 2012), professor of physiology and biophysics and professor of radiology at Georgetown University School of Medicine, pioneered the use of electronic digital computers in biology and medicine.
- In 1959, he wrote two influential articles in Science: "Reasoning Foundations of Medical Diagnosis" (with Lee B.
- Lusted) and "Digital Electronic Computers in Biomedical Science".
- Both articles encouraged biomedical researchers and physicians to adopt computer technology.
- In 1960 he established the National Biomedical Research Foundation (NBRF), a non-profit research organization dedicated to promoting the use of computers and electronic equipment in biomedical research.
- At the NBRF Ledley pursued several major projects: the early 1960s development of the Film Input to Digital Automatic Computer (FIDAC), which automated the analysis of chromosomes; the invention of the Automatic Computerized Transverse Axial (ACTA) whole-body CT scanner in the mid-1970s; managing the Atlas of Protein Sequence and Structure (created in 1965 by Margaret O.
- Dayhoff); and the establishment of the Protein Information Resource in 1984.
- Ledley also served as editor of several major peer-reviewed biomedical journals.
- In 1990, Ledley was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
- He was awarded the National Medal of Technology in 1997.
- He retired as president and research director of the NBRF in 2010.
