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John Haybittle
Dr John Haybittle (18 October 1922 - 19 November 2017) was a British medical physicist. Haybittle took up a position as junior physicist at Addenbrooke's Hospital in 1948. He worked there until retirement in 1982, by which time he was Chief Physicist. He served as secretary of the British Institute of Radiology from 1962 to 1967, and was editor of the ''British Journal of Radiology'' from 1981 to 1986. He was awarded the British Institute of Radiology's Röntgen Prize in 1972 and their Barclay Medal in 1987. He is a co-inventor, with Richard Peto, of the Haybittle–Peto boundary The Haybittle–Peto boundary is a rule for deciding when to stop a clinical trial prematurely. It is named for John Haybittle and Richard Peto. The typical clinical trial compares two groups of patients. One group are given a placebo A placebo .... References External links * 1922 births Place of birth missing 2017 deaths Medical physicists British radiologists British medic ...
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British People
British people or Britons, also known colloquially as Brits, are the citizens of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the British Overseas Territories, and the Crown dependencies.: British nationality law governs modern British citizenship and nationality, which can be acquired, for instance, by descent from British nationals. When used in a historical context, "British" or "Britons" can refer to the Ancient Britons, the indigenous inhabitants of Great Britain and Brittany, whose surviving members are the modern Welsh people, Cornish people, and Bretons. It also refers to citizens of the former British Empire, who settled in the country prior to 1973, and hold neither UK citizenship nor nationality. Though early assertions of being British date from the Late Middle Ages, the Union of the Crowns in 1603 and the creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707 triggered a sense of British national identity.. The notion of Britishness and a s ...
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Medical Physicist
A medical physicist is a health professional with specialist education and training in the concepts and techniques of applying physics in medicine and competent to practice independently in one or more of the subfields (specialties) of medical physics. A medical physicist plays a fundamental role in applying physics to medicine, but particularly in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. The scientific and technological progress in medical physics has led to a variety of skills that must be integrated into the role of a medical physicist in order for them to perform their job. The "medical services" provided to patients undergoing diagnostic and therapeutic treatments must, therefore, be the result of different but complementary skills. In general, the medical physicist is responsible for all scientific and technical aspects of imaging, radiation treatment, and radiation safety. It is their occupational role to ensure that medical modalities offered to patients are met with the utmos ...
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Addenbrooke's Hospital
Addenbrooke's Hospital is an internationally renowned large teaching hospital and research centre in Cambridge, England, with strong affiliations to the University of Cambridge. Addenbrooke's Hospital is based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus. The hospital is run by Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and is a designated academic health science centre. It is also the East of England's major trauma centre and was the first such centre to be operational in the United Kingdom. History The hospital was founded in 1766 on Trumpington Street with £4,500 from the will of Dr John Addenbrooke, a fellow of St Catharine's College. In 1962 the first building was opened on its present site, on the southern edge of the city at the end of Hills Road. The last patient left the old site in 1984 - the old site is now occupied by the Cambridge Judge Business School, as well as Browns Brasserie & Bar. A new elective care facility was procured under a Private Financ ...
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Röntgen Prize
Röntgen or Roentgen may refer to: * Roentgen (unit), unit of measurement for ionizing radiation, named after Wilhelm Röntgen * Wilhelm Röntgen (1845–1923), German physicist, discoverer of X-rays * Abraham Roentgen (1711–1793), German cabinetmaker * David Roentgen (1743–1807), German cabinetmaker, son of Abraham Roentgen * Gerhard Moritz Roentgen (1795-1852), Dutch and German entrepreneur and engineer * Engelbert Röntgen (1829–1897), German-Dutch violinist * Heinrich Röntgen (1787–1813), German explorer * Julius Röntgen (1855–1932), German-Dutch composer of classical music, son of Engelbert Röntgen * Kevin Roentgen, musician, singer with American rock band Orson * ''Roentgen'' (album), by Japanese singer Hyde See also * Röntgen rays, alternative name for X-rays * Roentgenium Roentgenium is a chemical element with the symbol Rg and atomic number 111. It is an extremely radioactive synthetic element that can be created in a laboratory but is not found in ...
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Barclay Medal
Barclay may refer to: People * Barclay (surname) * Clan Barclay Places * Barclay, Kansas * Barclay, Maryland, a town in Queen Anne's County * Barclay, Baltimore, Maryland, a neighborhood * Barclay, Nevada, a town in Lincoln County * Barclay, Texas Business * Barclay (record label), a French record label * Barclay (cigarette), an American brand of cigarettes * Barclays, a United Kingdom based bank * Barclay Manufacturing Company (1922–1971), a toy manufacturer * Barclay Mowlem, former Australian construction company * Andrew Barclay Sons & Company, a Scottish locomotive builder * Jack Barclay Bentley, a Bentley dealership * Barclay, a brand of liquor owned by Barton Brands Education * The Barclay School, a secondary school in Stevenage, UK * Barclay College, a college in Haviland, Kansas Other uses * Operation Barclay, a World War II operation * The Barclays, A golf tournament in New York City area See also * Barclayville, the capital of Grand Kru County, Li ...
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Medical Physicist
A medical physicist is a health professional with specialist education and training in the concepts and techniques of applying physics in medicine and competent to practice independently in one or more of the subfields (specialties) of medical physics. A medical physicist plays a fundamental role in applying physics to medicine, but particularly in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. The scientific and technological progress in medical physics has led to a variety of skills that must be integrated into the role of a medical physicist in order for them to perform their job. The "medical services" provided to patients undergoing diagnostic and therapeutic treatments must, therefore, be the result of different but complementary skills. In general, the medical physicist is responsible for all scientific and technical aspects of imaging, radiation treatment, and radiation safety. It is their occupational role to ensure that medical modalities offered to patients are met with the utmos ...
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British Institute Of Radiology
The British Institute of Radiology (BIR) is a radiology society and charity based in London, United Kingdom. It is the oldest institute of its kind in the world, forming on 2 April 1897. History The society can be traced back to two separate institutes, "The X-Ray Society" in April, 1897, and "The Röntgen Society"; both were formed in the wake of the discovery of X-rays by Wilhelm Röntgen in 1895. The latter was founded by Dr John Macintyre in 1897. He had been the first person in Britain to use X-rays, using equipment created by William Thomson, Lord Kelvin at Glasgow Royal Infirmary on 5 February 1896. The formalisation of the BIR occurred in 1927 upon the merger of the two societies. The BIR became a registered charity in 1963. Among other publications, the BIR publishes several journals including the ''British Journal of Radiology'' (BJR), and ''Dentomaxillofacial Radiology'' (the official journal of the International Association of Dentomaxillofacial Radiology, I ...
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British Journal Of Radiology
''The British Journal of Radiology'' is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering radiology. It is published by the British Institute of Radiology and the editors-in-chief are Simon Jackson (University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust) and Andrew Nisbet ( University College London). According to the '' Journal Citation Reports'', the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 3.629. History The journal's forerunner, the ''Archives of Clinical Skiagraphy'' was established by Sydney Domville Rowland in May 1896. In July 1897 it was renamed the ''Archives of the Roentgen Ray'' and reported that it would keep a "record fthe proceedings of the recently formed Roentgen Society, and will consist of original communications, notes, and correspondence ... (and) offers itself, not merely as a journal of the new photography, but to some extent as the exponent of an important discovery". It was published quarterly and was the only journal which reported the transactions of the roentgen Society ...
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Richard Peto
Sir Richard Peto (born 14 May 1943) is an English statistician and epidemiologist who is Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology at the University of Oxford, England. Education He attended Taunton's School in Southampton and subsequently studied the Natural Sciences Tripos at Trinity College, Cambridge followed by a Master of Science degree in Statistics at Imperial College London. Career and research His career has included collaborations with Richard Doll beginning at the Medical Research Council Statistical Research Unit in London. He set up the Clinical Trial Service Unit (CTSU) in Oxford in 1975 and is currently co-director. Peto's paradox is named after him. Awards and honours He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1989 for his contributions to the development of meta-analysis. He is a leading expert on deaths related to tobacco use. "When Sir Richard Peto began work with the late Richard Doll fifty years ago, the UK had the worst death rates from s ...
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Haybittle–Peto Boundary
The Haybittle–Peto boundary is a rule for deciding when to stop a clinical trial prematurely. It is named for John Haybittle and Richard Peto. The typical clinical trial compares two groups of patients. One group are given a placebo A placebo ( ) is a substance or treatment which is designed to have no therapeutic value. Common placebos include inert tablets (like sugar pills), inert injections (like Saline (medicine), saline), sham surgery, and other procedures. In general ... or conventional treatment, while the other group of patients are given the treatment that is being tested. The investigators running the clinical trial will wish to stop the trial early for ethical reasons if the treatment group clearly shows evidence of benefit. In other words, "when early results proved so promising it was no longer fair to keep patients on the older drugs for comparison, without giving them the opportunity to change." The Haybittle–Peto boundary is one such stopping rule, and it ...
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1922 Births
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Place Of Birth Missing
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