O. A. Trowell

Dr Oswald Arthur Trowell MD FRSE (1909–1967) was a 20th-century Scottish physician and radiobiologist. Also an avid amateur naturalist and ornithologist, he was affectionately known as Ossie Trowell. In authorship he is O. A. Trowell.

Life

He was born on 19 May 1909. He was educated at King Edward VI School, Birmingham. He then studied natural sciences at St John's College, Cambridge then studied medicine at the University of Birmingham graduating with an MB ChB in 1933. He then returned to St John's College where he was elected a Fellow. He received his doctorate (MD) in 1943 winning the Raymond Horton-Smith Prize for best thesis.[1]

In 1943 he moved to Edinburgh to lecture in physiology at the University of Edinburgh.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1944. His proposers were Ivan de Burgh Daly, Philip Eggleton, William Ogilvy Kermack and William Frederick Harvey. He resigned in 1967.[2]

In 1946 he moved to the University of Bristol, and in 1948 joined the staff of the Medical Research Council at Harwell in Berkshire. Here he largely studied the effects of radiation on the human body.[3]

He died on 17 November 1967

Family

He was married with two sons, both of whom were also doctors.

Publications
  • Choline and Liver Respiration (1935)
  • Watery Vacuolation of the Liver (1946)
  • The Sensitivity of Lymphocytes to Ionising Radiation (1952)
  • Cells and Tissues in Culture (1964)

References
  1. British Medical Journal: obituary December 1967
  2. Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2018-12-27.
  3. British Medical Journal: obituary December 1967
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