Oliver Scott
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Oliver Scott | |
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 Oliver Scott | |
| Born | Oliver Christopher Anderson Scott 6 November 1922 |
| Died | 4 November 2016 (aged 93)[1] |
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| Known for | Oxygen effect |
| Spouse | Phoebe-Anne Tolhurst |
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| Awards | Honorary Fellowship in the British Institute of Radiology |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Radiobiology |
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Sir Oliver Christopher Anderson Scott FRCR, MRCS, MB BChir, LRCP, 3rd Baronet Scott Of Yews (6 November 1922 – 4 November 2016) was a radiobiologist and philanthropist who worked with LH Gray and on Gray's death became the second director of the Gray Laboratory.
He became in line for the 3rd Baronet Scott on the death of his brother, James Philip Edmund Scott (born 13 August 1915, died in Libya 31 May 1942)
In 1991 the main building of the Cancer Research Campaign Gray Laboratory was named the Oliver Scott Building.[2]
Education[edit]
Educated at Charterhouse School, Oliver read natural sciences at King's College Cambridge, joined the MRCS and MB BChir 1946 University of Cambridge, LRCP[3] and qualified as a radiologist at St Thomas’s Hospital in 1946.
Career[edit]
- HMS Dolphin (1947 - 1949)
- Director of the Provincial Insurance Company (1955 - 1964)[4]
- Director of Gray Lab (1965 - 1969),[5][6]
- President of the oncology section of the Royal Society of Medicine (1987–88)[7]
Research[edit]
Oliver Scott was best known for his research on the oxygen effect in radiotherapy.[8][9]
Oliver Scott provided anonymous funding to the British Empire Cancer Campaign to establish a Radiobiological Research Laboratory with Hal Gray as the first director. [10]
References[edit]
- ^ Trott, K. R. (2016). "Oliver Scott (1922-2016)". Radiotherapy and Oncology. 121 (3): 480–481. doi:10.1016/j.radonc.2016.11.018. PMID 28328413.
- ^ Denekamp, J. (1991) Cancer Research Campaign Gray Laboratory Annual Report. rep. Northwood: Cancer Research Campaign Gray Laboratory, p. 3.
- ^ "Oliver Scott GMC reference no: 0646772". General Medical Council. GMC UK. Retrieved 5 February 2023.
- ^ Westall, Oliver (29 December 2016). "Sir Oliver Scott obituary". the Guardian. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
- ^ "Remembering Sir Oliver Scott and Jack Fowler – ICRU". www.icru.org. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
- ^ "LH Gray Memorial Trust: About L.H. Gray". 21 January 2023. Archived from the original on 21 January 2023. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
- ^ Jones, B.; Hendry, J. (2016). "Professor Jack Fowler and Sir Oliver Scott". The British Journal of Radiology. 90 (1069): 20160904.o. doi:10.1259/bjr.20160904.o. PMC 5605043. PMID 27998185.
- ^ "Sir Oliver Scott: Archives (1922-2016)".
- ^ Gray, L. H., Conger, A. D., Ebert, M., Hornsey, S., & Scott, O. C. (1953). The concentration of oxygen dissolved in tissues at the time of irradiation as a factor in radiotherapy. The British Journal of Radiology, 26(312), 638–648. https://doi.org/10.1259/0007-1285-26-312-638 | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/13106296/
- ^ Wynchank, S. (2017). Hal, Director of His Own Laboratory. In: Louis Harold Gray . Springer Biographies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43397-4_12