Oliver Scott
Sir Oliver Christopher Anderson Scott FRCR, MRCS, MB BChir, LRCP, 3rd Baronet Scott Of Yews was a radiobiologist and philanthropist who worked with LH Gray and on Gray's death became the second director of the Gray Laboratory.
He became in line for the 3rd Baronet Scott on the death of his brother, James Philip Edmund Scott
In 1991 the main building of the Cancer Research Campaign Gray Laboratory was named the Oliver Scott Building.
Education
Educated at Charterhouse School, Oliver read natural sciences at King's College Cambridge, joined theMRCS and MB BChir 1946 University of Cambridge, LRCP and qualified as a radiologist at St Thomas's Hospital in 1946.
Career
- HMS Dolphin
- Director of the Provincial Insurance Company
- Director of Gray Lab,
- President of the oncology section of the Royal Society of Medicine
Research
Oliver Scott provided anonymous funding to the British Empire Cancer Campaign to establish a Radiobiological Research Laboratory with Hal Gray as the first director.