About John Freeman Loutit
Lived 1910 – 1992 (aged 82). John Freeman Loutit was an Australian physician.
John Freeman Loutit CBE FRS FRCP (19 February 1910 – 11 June 1992), also known as 'Ian', was an Australian haematologist and radiobiologist.
Life John Freeman Loutit was born in Western Australia, the son of a locomotive engineer. He moved interstate for his tertiary education, entering residence at Trinity College, Melbourne, in 1929 while studying at the University of Melbourne.
He contributed significantly to the development of improved techniques for the storage and transfusion of blood during the Second World War. After the war he became a leading researcher in the then novel field of radiobiology. He established and ran the Medical Research Council's Radiobiology Unit at Harwell from 1947 to 1969. He gave the 1969 Bradshaw Lecture to the Royal College of Physicians on the subject of malignancies caused by radium.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1963.
He died in 1992. He had married Thelma Salusbury in 1941; they had three children.
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Australian haematologist and radiobiologist
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John Freeman Loutit was born on 19 February 1910.
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John Freeman Loutit died on 11 June 1992.
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John Freeman Loutit was a physician.
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