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John Freeman Loutit
Introduction
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.