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Russell James Thomas Herbert
September 21st 1912 - July 1989

Born Rushmere Ipswich, went to Ipswich Grammaer school and then got a scholarship to study Mathematicas and Physics at Reading University. Left university and tried teaching for a year,but did not enjoy it. During World War 2 was sent to Farnborough to work on radio transmission After the War moved to Southampton and was one of the early devlopers of medical imaging and therapy. He met his wife Jean at Southampton who was a nurse in the same hospital. 1949 moved to Bristol Hospital working on ionisation and gamma cameras. jean and Russell had their furst son Tom. Ealy 1950s moved to Liverpool Medical Hosptal and contiued work with John_Mallard]] on medical imaging. Two further children John and Ann became part of the family.

Died of Leukimea after retiring in 1984