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ESTRO AWARDS
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Alan Effraim Nahum
Clatterbridge Cancer Centre
Liverpool, UK
Alan Effraim Nahum, born Manchester 1949, studied physics at Oxford
University, UK. For his PhD (Edinburgh, 1975), supervised by John
Greening, he wrote a photon-electron Monte-Carlo code, applied
to the Fricke dosimeter and to ionisation chamber response. After
three years’ school teaching he joined Hans Svensson at ‘Institutionen
för Radiofysik’, Umeå, working on NACP dosimetry protocols; He
had a three-month sabbatical at NRCC, Ottawa in 1983, working on
simulating ion-chamber response with Dave Rogers and Alex Bielajew.
1985 - 2002 was spent at Institute of Cancer Research, UK. With
advice from Gordon Steel he developed the ‘Marsden’ TCP model,
incorporated into BIOPLAN by postdoc Beatriz Sanchez-Nieto to
explore iso-NTCP tumour dose individualisation. PhD students
Charlie Ma and Richard Knight applied Monte-Carlo simulation to
kilovoltage x-ray dosimetry. Spells as ‘visiting scientist’ followed at Fox-
Chase CC (Philadelphia), where he and Don Chapman challenged the
‘low prostate α/β’ hypothesis, at Reggio Emilia and Copenhagen.
In 2004 he joined Clatterbridge Cancer Centre as Head of Physics
Research, becoming ‘Visiting Professor’ at Liverpool University
Physics Department. He co-edited with Philip Mayles and Jean-Claude
Rosenwald,
Handbook of Radiotherapy Physics – Theory and Practice
in 2007. He created and organised the Clatterbridge Radiobiology
course (later ESTRO-supported) 2006 - 2015. His postdoc Julien
Uzan wrote
BioSuite
, for ‘isotoxic’ tumour-dose and fraction-number
individualisation. He co-wrote with Don Chapman,
Radiotherapy
Treatment Planning
- Linea
r-Quadratic Radiobiology
(CRC Press),
in 2015. He retired in October 2015. He has co-authored with Pedro
Andreo, David Burns, Jan Seuntjens and Frank Attix,
Fundamentals of
Ionizing Radiation Dosimetry
, 2nd Edition (Wiley VCH), to appear in
2017.
Alan Effraim
Nahum