Gia đình ông chuyển đến Freeport, Long Island, khi Dotter là một trẻ sơ sinh. Dotter của cha là một nhà kinh doanh chứng khoán thành công và mẹ ông là một nữ diễn viên đầy tham vọng. Dotter tham dự ngữ pháp trường, nơi ông bỏ qua một lớp, và trường trung học ở Freeport và là một học sinh xuất sắc. | CHAPTER 22 Charles Dotter interventional radiologist Innovation violates tradition - attacks it in public and steals from it in private. Mason Cooley Charles Dotter was born in Boston Massachusetts on June 14 1920. His family moved to Freeport Long Island when Dotter was an infant. Dotter s father was a successful stock trader and his mother was an aspiring actress. Dotter attended grammar school where he skipped a grade and high school in Freeport and was an excellent student. Dotter was always small for his age and eschewed competitive sports. He turned to mountain climbing as an outlet for his boundless energy and displayed an early mechanical aptitude. Dotter derived great satisfaction from working with tools and adopted his own sketch of a plumber s tools to symbolize his interest Figure . Dotter rarely observed a mechanical device or machine without contemplating other uses for it. After graduation from high school in Freeport Dotter attended Duke University. He received a bachelor of arts degree in 1941. Dotter returned to New York to attend medical school at Cornell where he met his future wife Pamela Battie. She was a head nurse at New York Hospital and they were married in 1944. Dotter completed his internship at the United States Naval Hospital in St. Albans New York and his radiology residency at New York Hospital. In 1950 Dotter became a full-time member of the Cornell University Medical College faculty. That year he developed an automatic x-ray roll-film magazine capable of producing two images per second. This became the prototype for the grid-controlled x-ray tube. Two years later Dotter was appointed Professor and Chairman of the Department of Radiology at the University of Oregon Medical School. At age 32 he was the youngest person to become chairman of a radiology department in a major American medical school. He held the position for 32 years during which he published over 300 manuscripts produced three scientific training films and created
