John Freeman Loutit

John Freeman Loutit CBE FRS FRCP Also known as 'Ian'. (19 February 1910 – 11 June 1992) was an Australian haematologist and radiobiologist.
He was born in Western Australia, the son of a locomotive engineer.
He contributed significantly to the development of improved techniques for the storage and transfusion of blood during the Second World War. After the war he became a leading researcher in the then novel field of radiobiology. He established and ran the Medical Research Council's Radiobiology Unit at Harwell from 1947 to 1969. He gave the 1969 Bradshaw Lecture to the Royal College of Physicians on the subject of malignancies caused by radium.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1963. His candidature citation read:
He died in 1992. He had married Thelma Salusbury in 1941; they had three children.