Edward Pochin
Sir Edward Eric Pochin CBE FRCP (22 September 1909 – 29 January 1990) was a British physician, a specialist in the dangers of ionizing radiation.[1][2][3]
He attended St.John's College, Oxford, and qualified in medicine at University College Hospital, London, in 1935.[4]
He married Constance Margaret Julia Tilly in 1940. They had two children. His wife died in 1971.[4]
He directed the Medical Research Council's department of clinical research from 1946 to 1974.[5]
Pochin served as advisor to the leading counsel for the British Government[6] and expert witness at the Royal Commission into British nuclear tests in Australia in 1984–1987.[7]
Awards and recognition
He was appointed a CBE in 1959, and appointed Knight Bachelor in 1975.[5]
He was awarded Gold Medal for Radiation Protection in 1981.[8]
References
- ‘POCHIN, Sir Edward (Eric)’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Nov 2012 accessed 4 April 2013
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- R. H. Clarke, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ‘Pochin, Sir Edward Eric (1909–1990)’, rev. first published 2004; online edn, May 2006, 822 words doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/40078
- Edward Pochin, 1983, Nuclear Radiation: Risks and Benefits, Clarendon Press, Oxford
- "Sir Edward Eric Pochin | RCP Museum". history.rcplondon.ac.uk. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
- "Obituary". BMJ. 300 (6723): 531–533. 24 February 1990. doi:10.1136/bmj.300.6723.531. ISSN 0959-8138. S2CID 220185573.
- Robin Auld
- McClelland Royal Commission
- "ICRP". www.icrp.org. Retrieved 7 January 2022.