Douglas Lea, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 08-Feb-1910
Place of Birth: Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 16-Jun-1947
Profession: physicist
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Douglas Lea
- Douglas Edward Lea was an experimental physicist working primarily in the field of radiobiology.
- He started working at the Cavendish Laboratory in the 1930s, and in time moved from nuclear physics to focus on biology.
- His influential book, The Actions of Radiation of Living Cells, was published in 1946, the year before he died in a car accident.
- Lea was a major contributor to the target theory of cell death caused by ionising radiation.A memorial lecture in his name has been given biennially since 1948.
- He was a close friend of fellow radiobiology pioneer, Louis Harold Gray.
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