§ Mr. Elliotasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Works, as representing the Lord President of the Council, the membership of the committee appointed by the Medical Research Council to prepare a report on the medical aspects of nuclear radiation.
§ Mr. BevinsThe Committee is as follows:
Sir Harold Himsworth, K.C.B., M.D., F.R.C.P., F.R.S., Q.H.P., Secretary of the Medical Research Council (Chairman).
Sir Ernest Rock Carling, F.R.C.S., F.R.C.P., Consultant Adviser, Ministries of Health and Home Office (Civil Defence), and Member of the Health Policy Committee of the Atomic Energy Authority.
Sir John Cockcroft, K.C.B., C.B.E., F.R.S., Director, Atomic Energy Research Establishment.
Professor A. Haddow, M.D., D.Sc, Director, Chester Beatty Research Institute.
Dr. J. F. Loutit, D.M., Director, Medical Research Council Radiobiological Research Unit.
Professor K. Mather, D.Sc, F.R.S., Professor of Genetics, Birmingham University.
Professor W. V. Mayneord, D.Sc, Professor of Physics applied to Medicine, London University.
Professor P. B. Medawar, D.Sc, F.R.S., Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy, University College, London.
Professor J. S. Mitchell, C.B.E., M.B., F.R.S., Professor of Radiotherapeutics, Cambridge University.
Professor L. S. Penrose, M.D., F.R.S., Galton Professor of Eugenics, University College, London.
Sir Edward Salisbury, C.B.E., D.Sc, F.R.S., Director, Royal Botanic Gardens.
Dr. F. G. Spear, M.D., Deputy Director, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge.
Professor J. R. Squire, M.D., F.R.C.P., Professor of Experimental Pathology, Birmingham University.
Professor C. H. Waddington, Sc.D., F.R.S., Professor of Animal Genetics, Edinburgh University.
Professor Sir Lionel Whitby, C.V.O., M.D., F.R.C.P., Regius Professor of Physic, Cambridge University.
Professor B. W. Windeyer, F.R.C.S., Professor of Radiology (Therapeutic), London University.