About: Leon Pape

Leon Pape (8 February 1925 – 2 January 1984) was a medical physicist who received his BSc, MSc (1953) and PhD (1965) in Physics from the University of Southern California. He became certified in radiological physics by the American Board of Radiology and from 1955-1962 he worked as a radiological physicist at the Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Los Angeles. He served at the California State University Los Angeles as Radiation Safety Officer and as Professor of Physics until 1971, and worked on the development of studies in biophysics, radiological health physics, and electron microscopy. He was elevated to Departmental Head of Physics at Cal State Los Angeles, and advocated with the California legislature to secure adequate funding for the 4-MeV Van de Graaf Laboratory, unique to CSU system.