Charles A. Mistretta is an American medical physicist. Mistretta earned a doctoral degree in high energy physics from

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in 1968. He joined the faculty of the

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in 1971, began researching medical imaging, and later held the J. R. Cameron Professorship of Medical Physics and Radiology. Mistretta shared the 1998 J. Allyn Taylor International Prize in Medicine with

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. In 2004, Mistretta was elected a fellow of the

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. He became a member of the

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in 2014. In 2017, the

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awarded Mistretta the Gray Medal.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Mistretta, Charles A. Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Medical physicists Harvard University alumni Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering 20th-century American physicists 21st-century American physicists Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty