Memorial for Paul Harper scheduled

A memorial service for the late Paul Harper, Professor Emeritus in Surgery and Radiology, is planned for 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 16, in Bond Chapel, 1050 E. 58th St.

Harper, a pioneer in the diagnostic and therapeutic uses of radiation and the development and testing of radiotracers in the early days of nuclear medicine, died Friday, July 15. He was 89.

Harper was the key member of a University research team, which included Katherine Lathrop, Don Charleston and Robert Beck, that was one of the first to investigate several of the tools of modern nuclear medicine.