Oliver Scott Explained

Honorific Prefix:	Sir
Oliver Scott
Birth Name:	Oliver Christopher Anderson Scott
Birth Date:	6 November 1922
Death Date:	^[1]
Fields:	Radiobiology
Known For:	Oxygen effect
Spouse:	Phoebe-Anne Tolhurst
Father:	Samuel Haslam Scott
Mother:	Nancy Anderson

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.^[2]

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^[3] 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)^[4]
• Director of Gray Lab (1965 - 1969),^{[5] [6]}
• President of the oncology section of the Royal Society of Medicine (1987–88)^[7]

Research

Oliver Scott was best known for his research on the oxygen effect in radiotherapy.^{[8] [9]}

Oliver Scott provided anonymous funding to the British Empire Cancer Campaign to establish a Radiobiological Research Laboratory with Hal Gray as the first director. ^[10]

Notes and References

1. Oliver Scott (1922-2016) . 28328413 . 2016 . Trott . K. R. . Radiotherapy and Oncology. 121 . 3 . 480–481 . 10.1016/j.radonc.2016.11.018 . free .
2. Denekamp, J. (1991) Cancer Research Campaign Gray Laboratory Annual Report. rep. Northwood: Cancer Research Campaign Gray Laboratory, p. 3.
3. Web site: Oliver Scott GMC reference no: 0646772 . General Medical Council . GMC UK . 5 February 2023 . GMC reference no: 0646772.
4. Web site: Westall . Oliver . 2016-12-29 . Sir Oliver Scott obituary . 2023-01-23 . the Guardian . en.
5. Web site: Remembering Sir Oliver Scott and Jack Fowler – ICRU . 2023-01-23 . www.icru.org.
6. Web site: 2023-01-21 . LH Gray Memorial Trust: About L.H. Gray . 2023-01-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230121032218/https://www.lhgraytrust.org/lhgraybiography.html . 21 January 2023 .
7. 5605043 . 2016 . Jones . B. . Hendry . J. . Professor Jack Fowler and Sir Oliver Scott . The British Journal of Radiology . 90 . 1069 . 20160904.o . 10.1259/bjr.20160904.o . 27998185 .
8. Web site: Sir Oliver Scott: Archives (1922-2016) .
9. [Louis Harold Gray|Gray, L. H.]
10. 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