Sir Ernest Rock Carling (1877–1960) was a British surgeon, war veteran and pioneering radiologist best known for his association with Westminster Hospital.
[2] Rock Carling became a member of the Medical Research Council and the Radium Trust that year.
"[5] In 1951, he was quoted in American newspapers as stating that efficient medical treatments had been developed to counter the effects of almost all known biological weapons.
[6] In 1954, Rock Carling opened Britain's first Cobalt therapy cancer treatment unit at the Bristol General Hospital.
[citation needed] Dr A. J. Shinnie wrote of Carling in the British Medical Journal that "all his life he lived for Westminster Hospital", and that the new building there that opened in 1939 was his "child".