George William Luckey

George W. Luckey was born April 17, 1925, in Dayton, Ohio, and grew up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He served in the Navy in WWII, then attended Oberlin College (1947) and the University of Rochester (1950), where he earned a PhD in Chemistry. In 1958 he married the former Doris Waring and they made Rochester their home. He spent his entire career at Eastman Kodak as a chemist and physicist, retiring in 1986 as Senior Research Associate and Senior Lab Head. Member of numerous scientific societies, he also loved gardening, classical music, and reading great works of literature.

Modern Computed Radiography. The roots of modern CR can be traced to 1975, when George Luckey developed the flexible storage phosphor imaging plate at Eastman Kodak Company. In that same year, Kodak patented the first scanned storage phosphor system, giving birth to modern computed radiography. It was not until 1983 that the first CR system using storage phosphor technology was commercialized. Acceptance of these systems has grown steadily, first among the medical community in the late 1980s, and now in the industrial community.