John Mark Anthony Lenihan

FRSE Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and Literature, letters, judged to be "eminently distinguished in their subject". ...

FIP PRPSG OBE (1918–1993) was a British clinical physicist, and science author.

Life

He was born in

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on 23 June 1918. He was educated at Heaton Secondary School in

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. He studied at King's College of

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, graduating BSc in 1938. In the

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he served as an officer in the

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. In 1945 he began lecturing in Natural Philosophy (Physics at

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. The university gave him a doctorate (PhD) in 1949. In 1948 he became the Physicist at the Western Infirmary in Glasgow. In 1953 he was promoted to Regional Physicist for Western Scotland and held this role until retiring in 1983. He employed

John Stewart Orr John Stewart Orr FRSE FIP (d. 2001) was a 20th-century Scottish medical physicist and researcher. He was the creator of Orr's Spherule, a scientific teaching tool. Life He was born at 34 Gray Street in Glasgow on 10 August 1930, the second son of ...

as his senior Physicist, working on radioactive isotopes and doing early research on

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technology. For the same period he was Science Correspondent for the

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newspaper. In 1967 he was elected a Fellow of the

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. His proposers were

Anthony Elliot Ritchie Anthony Elliot Ritchie FRSE FRCPE LLD (30 March 1915–14 September 1997) was a 20th-century Scottish physiologist and educator. Life Ritchie was born at 20 Upper Gray Street, Edinburgh on 30 March 1915, the only son of Jessie Jane Elliot an ...

, John Currie Gunn, George A P Wyllie and Arthur F. Brown. He was also President of the Royal Philosophical society of Glasgow. He died on 27 December 1993.

Publications

*''Atomic Energy and its Applications'' (1954) *''Human Engineering: The Body Re-Examined'' (1975) *''Built Environment (Environment and Man)'' (1978) *''Measuring and Monitoring the Environment'' (1978) *''The Crumbs of Creation'' (1988) *''The Research Reactor as a Window on the World''

References

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