Chronology of LH Gray

1905
Born, 10th November

1914 - 1924
Christ's Hospital

1924 - 1927
Exhibitioner and then Senior Scholar
Trinity College, Cambridge
Natural Science Tripos Parts I and II (Honours 1st Class)

1927 - 1930
Rouse Ball Research Student
Trinity College, Cavendish Laboratory

1929
First published paper: "The Absorption of Penetrating Radiation"

1930
Ph.D.

1930 - 1934
Fellow of Trinity College

1932
Married Freye Picot on 11th June

1933 - 1940
Physicist at Mount Vernon Hospital
supported by the British Empire Cancer Campaign

1934 - 1939
Prophit Scholar of the Royal College of Surgeons
at Mount Vernon Hospital

1938
Roentgen Award of the British Institute of Radiology

1946 - 1953
Senior Physicist and then Deputy Director
Medical Research Council Radiotherapeutic Research Unit,
Hammersmith Hospital

1946 - 1947
President of the Hospital Physicists Association

1950
President of the British Institute of Radiology

1953 - 1965
Nuffield Fellow and Director
British Empire Cancer Campaign Research Unit in Radiobiology,
Mount Vernon Hospital

1953
Sylvanus Thompson Memorial Lecturer
(British Institute of Radiology)

1954
Katherine Berkan Judd Award (Sloane Kettering Institute)

1958
Vice-Chairman, International Commission on Radiological Units
Chairman, British Units Committee
Chairman, Association of Radiation Research
Chairman, Medical Research Council Sub-Committee on Heavy Particles

1960
Barclay Medal
(British Institute of Radiology)

1961
Elected Fellow of the Royal Society

Stanley Melville Memorial Lecture by invitation, Society of Radiographers

1962
President
2nd International Congress of Radiation Research
Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science, University of Leeds

Appointed G.E. Adams (1930 - 1988) to work at British Empire Cancer Campaign Research Unit in Radiobiology, (later: Gray Laboratory of the Cancer Research Campaign )

1963
Lecturer at the International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi", Varenna, Italy

1964
Bertner Foundation Award, M.D. Anderson Hospital

1965
Died, 9th July