George Quentin Chance
George Quentin Chance was an Irish radiologist. His note of 1948 titled "Note on a Type of Flexion Fracture of the Spine", published in the British Journal of Radiology described three cases of fractures across the vertebra and neural arch, the 'Chance fracture'.
He was born into a medical family, the fifth son of the Irish surgeon Sir Arthur Chance; his mother was Sir Arthur's second wife Eileen Murphy.