Sir Brian Wellingham Windeyer (7 February 1904 – 26 October 1994) was Professor of

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at the

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, from 1942–69, Dean of school from 1954–67 and

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of the University of London from 1969–72.National Library of Australia, accessed 23 March 2013
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Early life and education

Windeyer was born in

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near

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, to parents of British, and earlier

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origin. He was the youngest of seven children of Mabel Fuller Robinson (1864–1956), an orphan emigrant from London to Australia at the age of 18. In 1891 she married

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KC (1864–1957), a

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. His grandfather was Sir William Charles Windeyer. He attended Sydney Church of England Grammar School and then studied medicine at the

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obtaining

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in 1927.New Scientist on Google Books, 21 September 1961, accessed 23 March 2013
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Career

After time at

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, Sydney, he worked at the Fondation Curie in

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from 1929–30.Oxford Brookes University: Sir Brian Windeyer in interview with Sir Gordon Wolstenholme, Oxford, 17 March 1986, accessed 23 March 2013
He obtained a Diploma in Medical Radiology and Electrology 1933 at

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. He also obtained

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at the

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. In 1931 he became

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officer at the Middlesex Hospital and officer in charge of the Meyerstein Institute of Radiotherapy formed in 1936. This was at a time when radium and x-ray treatment were carried out by different clinical teams. In World War II he was director in the emergency medical service of

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in Northwood, Middlesex. In 1942 he became the first professor of therapeutic radiology at the Middlesex. He helped found and became President of the Faculty of Radiologists (1949–52).Royal College of Radiologists, list of past presidents, accessed 23 March 2013
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Personal life

He was married twice, first on 21 March 1928 to Joyce Ziele Russell (1903–1981). They had a son Michael (1933–) and daughter Joanne (1936–). He married second, in January 1948, Elspeth Anne Bowery and had three children, Francis (1949–), Kyla (1954–), and Elspeth (1957–). He was knighted ( KBE) in 1961. The Windeyer building, now the Windeyer Institute of Medical Sciences, of

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with which the Middlesex Medical School merged, was named after him.Windeyer - history of a building, accessed 23 March 2013
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Windeyer, Brian 1904 births 1994 deaths Vice-Chancellors of the University of London Scientists from Sydney University of Sydney alumni Physicians of the Middlesex Hospital People educated at Sydney Church of England Grammar School Sydney Medical School alumni Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire

Early life and education

Career

Personal life

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