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H. Rodney Withers  

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  • AN AUSTRALIAN-BORN RADIOTHERAPIST and radiobiologist, Rodney Withers was the winner of the Charles F. Kettering Prize of the General Motors Cancer Foundation in 1998 for “developing the concept of ‘hyperfractionation’ in radiation therapy.” Hubert Rodney Withers was born on September 21, 1932, in Stanthorpe, Queensland, Australia, the son of Hubert Withers and Gertrude Ethel (née Tremayne). He attended the Church of England Grammar School, Brisbane, and the University of Queensland (M.B., B.S., 1956). [Source: Encyclopedia of Cancer and Society; Withers, H. Rodney]

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