Abstract
Obituary: Dr John MG Davis PhD, DSc, FRCPath
Highlights
John Davis, who died aged 76 on October 21st 2011, was a leading researcher into asbestos and coal related diseases. In his role as head of pathology at the Institute of Occupational Medicine (IOM) in Edinburgh he led a group of scientists who were to make important contributions not just to the understanding of classical occupational diseases and to the recent literature on nanotoxicology
He became interested in electron microscopy and wrote his PhD on the ultrastructural signs of x-radiation of rat hepatocytes. He obtained an industrial fellowship in the Cambridge University Department of Pathology and became assistant director of research, developing his interest in asbestos and its effects on the lung. This was the time when the malignant disease mesothelioma was described in relation to asbestos exposure in South Africa by Chris Wagner and his colleagues, and fears were beginning to be expressed that what was a very rare tumour could become more common; sadly this proved to be the case
The asbestos industry had set up an organisation to research these issues and decided to base its research effort in the IOM, John moving there in 1971 to lead this research as head of the pathology group
Summary
John Davis, who died aged 76 on October 21st 2011, was a leading researcher into asbestos and coal related diseases. In his role as head of pathology at the Institute of Occupational Medicine (IOM) in Edinburgh he led a group of scientists who were to make important contributions not just to the understanding of classical occupational diseases and to the recent literature on nanotoxicology.
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