J. S. Mitchell

Joseph Stanley Mitchell, CBE, FRS, FRCP (22 July 1909 – 22 February 1987) was a British physician, radiotherapist and academic. He was Regius Professor of Physic at the University of Cambridge from 1957 to 1975.

Early life Mitchel was born on 22 July 1909 in Birmingham, England. He was only son and the eldest child born to Joseph Brown Mitchell and his wife Ethel Maud Mary Mitchell (née Arnold). Having undertaken preclinical studies at Birmingham, in 1928 he won a scholarship to St John's College, Cambridge. He did so and graduated Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MB BChir) from the University of Cambridge in 1934. He oversaw the expansion of medical teaching at Cambridge, including the introduction of two new chairs; Professor of Medicine in 1963 and Professor of Surgery in 1965. In 1967, he was awarded the Pirogoff medal by the USSR Academy of Sciences.