Louis Harold Gray A Founding Father of Radiobiology /

• Main Author: Wynchank, Sinclair (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Springer Biographies
• Subjects: Medicine.; Radiotherapy.; Medicine > History.; Medical physics.; Radiation.; Medicine & Public Health.; Medical and Radiation Physics.; History of Medicine.

This book is a scientific biography of Louis Harold (“Hal”) Gray, FRS (1905–65), a pioneer in radiobiology – a little known science that is nevertheless extremely important since it constitutes the basis of radiotherapy. Hal Gray’s work also played a vital role in ensuring that radiography would be...

Table of Contents:

• Beginnings
• Christ’s Hospital and Hal’s early schooldays
• Moving up the School
• Science at Housey
• A Cambridge undergraduate
• Nuclear Physics and Professor Rutherford
• Hal, a postgraduate member of Trinity College
• Social life and marriage
• Travel
• The Mount Vernon Hospital
• At the RRU and Hal’s forced resignation
• Hal, Director of his own Laboratory
• The Stroke
• Hal’s passing. .