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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:15, 15 July 2017 (UTC)

Constance Wood

 * ... that Constance Wood was first to install a cyclotron in a hospital, but one of her patients teased her with a rat?
 * Reviewed: X-Men Gold, X-Men Blue
 * Comment: This article was created for the Wellcome Electricity event about women engineers.

Created by Andrew Davidson (talk). Self-nominated at 23:05, 22 June 2017 (UTC).


 * Symbol question.svg Long enough. New enough. Well written. Citations throughout. AGF on offline citations. Of the citations available online, citation 5 doesn't support that she introduced an MeV accelerator. Citation 6 doesn't say anything about her introducing the first cyclotron in a hospital--a fact used in the hook; I assume citation 1 does. AGF also on the other fact used in the hook that one of her patients teased her with a rat. The hook is fair; it seems a bit forced. It can be better. Anyway, please fix the sentence currently citing citation 5. Hybernator (talk) 22:10, 30 June 2017 (UTC)


 * Symbol redirect vote 4.svg citation 5 says, "In 1952 a linear accelerator, the first of its kind in the world, was installed in Hammersmith Hospital. Dr Wood had been closely involved in developing this machine..."  Citation 6 says, "Back in 1955, Hammersmith was the only hospital in the world to have a cyclotron."  Citation 1 has lots of detail including, "Dr Wood was also closely involved in the development of the first linear accelerator. Following the discovery of the magnetron, a prototype 4 MeV travelling wave accelerator had been built by Fry at the Telecommunications Research Establishment at Malvern in 1948. As it seemed to have a great future in radiotherapy she arranged with MRC support for physicists from Hammersmith to collaborate with the Malvern group and with Metropolitan Vickers to design a machine suitable for clinical use. This machine which was given a long period of testing was eventually installed in Hammersmith Hospital in 1952 and was the first of this type of beam accelerator in the world. It produced 8 MeV X-rays and electrons and it also incorporated a new system for beam alignment designed by Howard-Flanders and Newbery which later became known as isocentric mounting and which is now standard practice in supervoltage equipment design. The linear accelerator development was an outstanding achievement of which she was justifiably extremely proud. The Hammersmith cyclotron was another major development for which Dr Gray and she were responsible.  They foresaw that beams of atomic particles could have important biological and clinical applications, but to install a cyclotron in a hospital was a formidable undertaking. As there was no commercial experience of cyclotron construction available it had to be built on the site by a team of engineers and physicists assembled specially for the work. After it was completed and inaugurated by Her Majesty The Queen in 1955..."  So, I reckon that the article is reasonably accurate as it stands.  I may expand it further now that I have revisited the topic but this should not be an obstacle to the DYK process.  Andrew D. (talk) 11:34, 12 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Symbol voting keep.svg I don't have access to citation 1 but will use the text provided above as citation 1. AGF. I've added the citation to the sentence in the article. GTG. Hybernator (talk) 01:41, 15 July 2017 (UTC)