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020			_a9783319433974 _9978-3-319-43397-4
024	7		_a10.1007/978-3-319-43397-4 _2doi
035			_a(DE-He213)978-3-319-43397-4
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100	1		_aWynchank, Sinclair. _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aLouis Harold Gray _h[electronic resource] : _bA Founding Father of Radiobiology / _cby Sinclair Wynchank.
264		1	_aCham : _bSpringer International Publishing : _bImprint: Springer, _c2017.
300			_aXV, 137 p. 23 illus. _bonline resource.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_atext file _bPDF _2rda
490	1		_aSpringer Biographies
505	0		_a 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. .
520			_aThis 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 radiography would be a safe procedure for the hundreds of millions of persons in whom X-ray pictures have been taken. The book offers fascinating insights into both the history of radiobiology and the life of Hal. It contains much unique biographical material made available to the author over the past 35 years by Hal’s contemporaries, many of whom have since died. Great influences on Hal’s life and studies, including his unusual high school, Christ’s Hospital, and his firm moral beliefs, are described. But his life was not merely a gentle, cloistered existence in academia. Its ups and downs included events that would not have been out of place in a Hollywood drama. The work, the first book-length biography of Hal, is intended for all who enjoy this genre (including those without a scientific background) or have an interest in the history of radiobiology and radiotherapy. .
650		0	_aMedicine.
650		0	_aRadiotherapy.
650		0	_aMedicine _xHistory.
650		0	_aMedical physics.
650		0	_aRadiation.
650	1	4	_aMedicine & Public Health.
650	2	4	_aRadiotherapy.
650	2	4	_aMedical and Radiation Physics.
650	2	4	_aHistory of Medicine.
710	2		_aSpringerLink (Online service)
773	0		_tSpringer eBooks
776	0	8	_iPrinted edition: _z9783319433967
830		0	_aSpringer Biographies
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43397-4
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