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SINCE the gift of a large sum of money to the King Edward's Hospital Fund by Sir Otto Beit in 1928 for the purchase of radium for use in the treatment of cancer, the Fund has taken an ever-increasing practical interest in the work associated with this and other gifts especially reserved for radium. When the National Radium Commission came into being in 1929, working arrangements were soon made between it and the Fund whereby the latter body became responsible for seeing that the radium needs of the London area were satisfied. In the developments of the last few years, the Fund has been assisted by an expert Radium Committee, which is now presided over by Sir Cuthbert Wallace. Recently this Committee has been considering in what way radiological treatment could be improved, and the Fund has approved the formation of a panel of consultant physicists. The chief reason that has led to this step is the realization that radiotherapy should be, can be, and is at some centres carried out on a quantitative basis, and that for this purpose the services of a physicist are necessary. The panel is designed to serve the needs of the many hospitals in which radium and X-ray treatment is carried out, but at which the employment of a physicist is precluded by expense. The groups of physicists constituting this panel are as follow: Dr. ?. ?. Flint and colleagues, Physics Department, Westminster Hospital, S.W.I; Mr. L. G. Grimmett and colleagues, Physics Department, Radium Beam Therapy Research, Radium Institute, Ridinghouse Street, W.I; Prof. F. L. Hopwood and colleagues, Physics Department, St. Bartholomew's Hospital, E.C.I; Dr. W. V. Mayneord and colleagues, Physics Department, Royal Cancer Hospital, Fulham Road, S.W.3; Prof. S. Russ and colleagues, Physics Department, Middlesex Hospital, W.I.
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Radiotherapeutic Panel of Physicists. Nature 145, 928 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145928a0
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