Joseph Stanley Mitchell, CBE, FRS, FRCP (22 July 1909 – 22 February 1987) was a British radiotherapist and academic.
[3] Having undertaken preclinical studies at Birmingham, in 1928 he won a scholarship to St John's College, Cambridge.
[1] Having specialised in physics in Part II, he was advised by Lord Rutherford to return to Birmingham to undertake his clinical training.
[1] Mitchell began his medical career as a house officer at Birmingham General Hospital.
[2] In 1937, he completed his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree on 'the irradiation of thin protein films'.
[3] From 1937 to 1938, he worked as a radiological officer at the Christie Hospital, a centre that specialised in the treatment of cancer, based in Manchester.
[3] In 1944, he joined the Chalk River Laboratories, Canada, as head of medical investigations for the joint British-Canadian atomic energy project.
[4] In the 1951 King's Birthday Honours, he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).