Edith Smaw Quimby (née Hinkley; July 10, 1891 – October 11, 1982) was an American medical researcher and physicist, best known as one of the founders of nuclear medicine.

After a brief stint teaching high school in Nyssa, Oregon, she was awarded a 1914 fellowship for her master's degree studies at the University of California which she earned in 1916.

In 1942, she left Memorial Hospital and joined the Center for Radiological Research, led by Failla, at Columbia's medical school, where she worked until 1978.

[citation needed] In 1941, she was appointed to the faculty of Cornell University Medical College as an assistant professor of radiology.

[2] The following year, she was awarded the Gold Medal of the Radiological Society of North America, for work which "placed every radiologist in her debt.".