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A STONE memorial to a hundred and sixty medical men, physicists, chemists, laboratory workers and nurses whose deaths were due to working with X-rays, was unveiled on April 4 at St. George's Hospital, Hamburg. The countries represented on the memorial are Germany, France, Great Britain, the United States, Italy, Hungary, Switzerland, Austria, Denmark, Czechoslovakia, Spain, Belgium, Finland, Russia and Holland. The British names inscribed are R. G. Blackall, C. R. C. Lister, Melville H. Walsham, C. Williams, E. E. Wilson, W. H. Fowler, J. S. Hall-Edwards, J. W. L. Spence, J. R. Riddell and W. I. Bruce Pirie.
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Memorial to X-Ray Workers. Nature 137, 653 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137653e0
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