Dawson Turner (radiologist)

Dawson Fyers Duckworth Turner, FRSE, FRCPE (1857–1928) was a British pioneer of radiology and patron of the arts, who died of radiation related cancer.

Returning to Britain Turner studied at Edinburgh University where he graduated in Medicine (MB CM with honours) in 1888 and attained his MD 1890.

[8] His surgical colleague Alexis Thomson inserted an aluminium case, which enclosed a glass tube containing radium bromide, into the tumour below the clavicle.

Turner, over the next few days, exposed the involved lymph nodes above the clavicle to radium bromide contained in a second tube.

His is one of the 14 British names of the 169 included on the Monument to the X-ray and Radium Martyrs of All Nations erected in Hamburg, Germany in 1936.