Louis Harold Gray : A Founding Father of Radiobiology

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 radiog...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Wynchank, Sinclair (Author)
Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
SeriesSpringer Biographies
Subjects
Medicine.
Radiotherapy.
Medicine > History.
Medical physics.
Radiation.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9783319433974
DOI10.1007/978-3-319-43397-4
Physical DescriptionXV, 137 p. 23 illus. online resource.

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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. .

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