Sir Oliver Christopher Anderson Scott
FRCR
The Royal College of Radiologists (RCR) is the professional body responsible for the specialties of clinical oncology and Radiology, clinical radiology throughout the United Kingdom. Its role is to advance the science and practice of radiology ...
,
MRCS,
MB BChir,
LRCP
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,
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
The MRC Oxford Institute for Radiation Oncology (formerly the Gray Institute for Radiation Oncology and Biology) is an institute dedicated to research on radiobiology and radiotherapy
Radiation therapy or radiotherapy (RT, RTx, or XRT) is a ...
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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.
Education
Educated at
Charterhouse School
Charterhouse is a Public school (United Kingdom), public school (English independent boarding school for pupils aged 13–18) in Godalming, Surrey, England. Founded by Thomas Sutton in 1611 on the site of the old Carthusian monastery in Charter ...
, Oliver read natural sciences at
King's College Cambridge, joined the
MRCS and
MB BChir 1946
University of Cambridge
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,
LRCP
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and qualified as a radiologist at St Thomas’s Hospital in 1946.
Career
*
HMS Dolphin
Numerous Royal Navy vessels have been named HMS ''Dolphin'' after the dolphin.
* The first seven ''Dolphins'' were small ketches and fireships.
* , launched in 1731, was a 20-gun post ship, renamed ''Firebrand'' in 1755 and ''Penguin'' in 1757.
* ...
(1947 - 1949)
* Director of the
Provincial Insurance Company (1955 - 1964)
* Director of Gray Lab (1965 - 1969),
* President of the oncology section of the Royal Society of Medicine (1987–88)
Research
Oliver Scott was best known for his research on the oxygen effect in radiotherapy.
Oliver Scott provided anonymous funding to the
British Empire Cancer Campaign
Cancer Research UK (CRUK) is the world's largest independent cancer research organisation. It is registered as a charity in the United Kingdom and Isle of Man, and was formed on 4 February 2002 by the merger of The Cancer Research Campaign and t ...
to establish a Radiobiological Research Laboratory with
Hal Gray as the first director.
[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]
References
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Directors of Gray Cancer Institute
1922 births
2016 deaths
People educated at Charterhouse School
Radiobiologists
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