Edith Quimby
Edith Hinkley Quimby was born on July 10th 1819 in Rockford, Illinois. ... Throughout her life time Edith Quimby was very successful. Edith attended Whitman College in Walla Walla , WA. ... Quimby was also a teacher before she entered the University of California at Berkley. ... Failla offered Quimby to be his assistant. ... Edith determined the distribution of the radiation doses in tissue from various arrangements of radium needles. ... Quimby applied radium- containing needles to tumors to see what the effect would be.