Robbie Barish:
CLASS OF 1964
Weequahic High SchoolClass of 1964
Newark, NJ
Robbie's Story
Robbie is from Newark, New Jersey. Robbie's schools include Weequahic High School. Robbie later attended NYU College of Arts and Science (Physics).
More about Robbie:"I am a medical and health physicist in New York. For the past eighteen years I have specialized in designing radiation shielding for medical facilities, with over 650 projects completed to date.
I received a BS in physics and a Master of Engineering in radiological health, both from New York University. I earned a Ph.D. in Medical Physics from the University of London's Institute of Cancer Research. I was an Associate Professor of Radiology at NYU Medical School (1976-1991), then chief radiotherapy physicist at the Cancer Institute of St. Vincents Catholic Medical Centers of Brooklyn and Queens (1991-1999). I participated in clinical research at the Lenox Hill Heart and Cardiovascular Institute in their program of intravascular brachytherapy to prevent coronary artery restenosis. I have also been a key advocate for education of flight crewmembers and business frequent flyers about in-flight radiation. I am the author of the book The Invisible Passenger: Radiation Risks for People Who Fly. A second edition was published in November 2008. I served on the program committee for the 1998 National Council on Radiat...Expand for more
ion Protection symposium on Cosmic Radiation Exposure of Airline Crews, Passengers and Astronauts. I am certified by American Board of Health Physics, the American Board of Radiology, and the American Board of Medical Physics and I am a Fellow of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine and a Fellow of the Health Physics Society.. My forty-first peer-reviewed scientific paper was published May 2014 in the Journal Health Physics.. I also play oboe and English horn with the Mannes College of Music Community Orchestra, and The Riverside Orchestra in New York City. In the past I was also a producer and program host on Capital Radio in London England and, for many years, was part of the live radio team at Pacifica Radio in New York City, WBAI-FM. The bond between all of us who go back to the days when the radio station was at 30 East 39th Street is permanent, no matter where life has taken us. The legendary Bob Fass, and my friend Steve Post (who passed away in August 2014), taught me everything that got me on the radio in London. I'll always be grateful to them. Similar bonds exist with the earliest staff of Capital Radio. We stay in contact with a private Facebook page and have a reunion in London every five years on the anniversary of Capital's start in October 1973.
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