Oliver Scott
{{Short description|English radiobiologist (1922–2016)}}
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| honorific_prefix = Sir
| name = Oliver Scott
| honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|MD|MRCS|MC BChir|LRCP|FRCR|3rd Baronet Scott Of Yews|size=100%}}
| image = Portrait of Sir Oliver Scott taken by Godfrey Argent.jpg
| caption = Oliver Scott
| birth_name = Oliver Christopher Anderson Scott
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1922|11|6|df=y}}
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| death_date = {{Death date and age|2016|11|04|1922|11|06|df=yes}}{{cite journal | url=https://www.thegreenjournal.com/article/S0167-8140(16)34407-3/fulltext | pmid=28328413 | year=2016 | last1=Trott | first1=K. R. | title=Oliver Scott (1922-2016) | journal=Radiotherapy and Oncology| volume=121 | issue=3 | pages=480–481 | doi=10.1016/j.radonc.2016.11.018 | doi-access=free }}
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| work_institution = {{Plainlist|
- Provincial Insurance Company
- Hammersmith Hospital
- Gray Laboratory
- Royal Society of Medicine
- President of the Royal Society of Medicine (Oncology)
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| fields = Radiobiology
| known_for = Oxygen effect
| prizes = {{Plainlist|Honorary Fellowship in the British Institute of Radiology
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| spouse = Phoebe-Anne Tolhurst
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| father = Samuel Haslam Scott
| mother = Nancy Anderson
| children = {{Plainlist|* Christopher, [https://lakelandarts.org.uk/items/lucian-freud-1922-2011/ Hermione] and Camilla}}
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Sir Oliver Christopher Anderson Scott FRCR, MRCS, MB BChir, LRCP, 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.
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.Denekamp, J. (1991) Cancer Research Campaign Gray Laboratory Annual Report. rep. Northwood: Cancer Research Campaign Gray Laboratory, p. 3.
Education
Educated at Charterhouse School, Oliver read natural sciences at King's College Cambridge, joined the
MRCS and MB BChir 1946 University of Cambridge, LRCP{{cite web |title=Oliver Scott GMC reference no: 0646772 |url=https://www.gmc-uk.org/doctors/0646772 |website=General Medical Council |publisher=GMC UK |access-date=5 February 2023 |ref=GMC reference no: 0646772}} and qualified as a radiologist at St Thomas’s Hospital in 1946.
Career
- HMS Dolphin (1947 - 1949)
- Director of the Provincial Insurance Company (1955 - 1964){{Cite web |last=Westall |first=Oliver |date=2016-12-29 |title=Sir Oliver Scott obituary |url=http://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2016/dec/29/sir-oliver-scott-obituary |access-date=2023-01-23 |website=the Guardian |language=en}}
- Director of Gray Lab (1965 - 1969),{{Cite web |title=Remembering Sir Oliver Scott and Jack Fowler – ICRU |url=https://www.icru.org/sir-oliver-scott-jack-fowler/ |access-date=2023-01-23 |website=www.icru.org}}{{Cite web |date=2023-01-21 |title=LH Gray Memorial Trust: About L.H. Gray |url=https://www.lhgraytrust.org/lhgraybiography.html |access-date=2023-01-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230121032218/https://www.lhgraytrust.org/lhgraybiography.html |archive-date=21 January 2023 }}
- President of the oncology section of the Royal Society of Medicine (1987–88){{cite journal | pmc=5605043 | year=2016 | last1=Jones | first1=B. | last2=Hendry | first2=J. | title=Professor Jack Fowler and Sir Oliver Scott | journal=The British Journal of Radiology | volume=90 | issue=1069 | pages=20160904.o | doi=10.1259/bjr.20160904.o | pmid=27998185 }}
Research
Oliver Scott was best known for his research on the oxygen effect in radiotherapy.{{cite web | url=https://wellcomecollection.org/works/wzxasrrp | title=Sir Oliver Scott: Archives (1922-2016) }}Gray, L. H., Conger, A. D., Ebert, M., Hornsey, S., & Scott, O. C. (1953). The concentration of oxygen dissolved in tissues at the time of irradiation as a factor in radiotherapy. The British Journal of Radiology, 26(312), 638–648. https://doi.org/10.1259/0007-1285-26-312-638
| https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/13106296/
Oliver Scott provided anonymous funding to the British Empire Cancer Campaign to establish a Radiobiological Research Laboratory with Hal Gray as the first director.
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Category:Directors of Gray Cancer Institute