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Frank Ellis
22 August 1905- 3 February 2006
Oxford, UK
Submitted by Paul Guinnessy
Published on 27 February 2006
Frank Ellis, radiation oncologist: born Sheffield 22 August 1905; head of radiotherapy, Weston Park Hospital, Sheffield 1930-43, Royal London Hospital 1943-50, Churchill Hospital, Oxford 1950-70; President, British Institute of Radiology 1962-63; OBE 2000; married 1932 Dorothy Parr (died 1990; two sons, two daughters, and one son deceased); died Oxford 3 February 2006.
Current comments and reminiscences on Frank Ellis:
Dr Ellis also spent many productive years after 1970 in the United States. I met him in Milwaukee while he was at the Medical College of Wisconsin. It was during this time he taught us how to do Iridium-192 Breast Implants. These have now come back in vogue using HDR but the catheter implant technique remains much the same.
He was a wonderful man to be around when I was a young Medical Physicist.
J Whitton
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Dr Frank Ellis - Energetic and long-lived idealist who pioneered cancer radiotherapy
The Independent