Otto Glasser Papers
Born and educated in Germany, Otto Glasser immigrated to the United States in 1922. By 1923 he joined the Department of Biophysical Research at theCleveland Clinic and later became its head. In this capacity Glasser carried on research, taught and wrote extensively on the physics of radiology and the life of Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen. Glasser's most important scientific work, the invention of the condenser dosimeter, won worldwide recognition. Developed in collaboration with U.V. Portman and Valentine B. Seitz of the Cleveland Clinic, the dosimeter measured x-rays and radiation from radioactive substances. It enabled radiologists to calibrate x-ray apparatus and this assured both the safety and the accuracy of their equipment.
The Glasser collection includes materials gathered by Glasser while writing the Roentgen biography, correspondence with colleagues discussing pioneers in radiology; personal correspondence with family, and material generated during the invention of the dosimeter.
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