John Freeman Loutit

John Freeman Loutit CBE FRS Also known as ‘Ian’. (19 February 1910 – 11 June 1992).

John Loutit contributed significantly to the development of improved techniques for the storage and transfusion of blood during the Second World War.

After the war he became a leading researcher in the then novel field of radiobiology.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1963.