Sir Ronald Bodley Scott GCVO FRCP (10 September 1906 – 12 May 1982) was an English haematologist and expert on therapy for leukaemia and lymphoma.
He then studied at the medical college of St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he was influenced by Walter Langdon-Brown, Thomas Horder, and Francis Fraser.
[3] He first joined his father, Dr Maitland Bodley Scott, in his medical practice in Bournemouth, but soon returned to St Bartholomew's Hospital as chief assistant to Alexander Edward Gow (1884–1952).
[1] R. Bodley Scott's work on bone marrow aspiration formed the basis of his higher DM thesis in 1937 at the University of Oxford.
St Bartholomew's Hospital created in his honour the Sir Ronald Bodley Scott Professorship of Cardiovascular Medicine.
From the 1960s until his death in 1982, he was a co-editor of Medical Annual: A Yearbook of Treatment and Practitioners' Index,[3] first with the surgeon R. Milnes Walker, CBE, FRCS and then with Sir John Fraser.