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38 Med. Sci. & L. 1 (1998)

handle is hein.journals/mdsclw38 and id is 1 raw text is: Professor J. Stewart Orr DSc FRSE, President of the Academy 1998-9 Educated in Glasgow, Professor Orr started as a physicist in industry on infra-red missile guidance, before joining the NHS as a Regional Adviser on diagnostic X-ray equipment. He then ran West of Scotland radiotherapy physics, researching mainly in radiobiology and biological kinetics. On taking the Chair of Medical Physics at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, London, he was involved in developments in magnetic resonance imaging and hospital computing. His radiation interests continued in the NRPB, the Black Committee on Sellafield leukaemia and litigation advice. Latterly he has worked on problems of clinical language in computing. He served his professional bodies in the UK and Europe from 1969 onwards. For lighter moments he climbed in his youth, sailed in his age and generated nine grandchildren in between.