Person

Holman, William Prout (1899 - 1972)

Born
16 September 1899
Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia
Died
12 August 1972
Canterbury, Victoria, Australia
Occupation
Radiologist

Summary

William Holman was the first radiological specialist in Tasmania and was instrumental in promoting and improving radiotherapy practice in that state. He played a key role in the foundation and administration of the Tasmanian Cancer Institute. In 1952 he moved to Melbourne and for 12 years was Medical Director of the Cancer Institute Board of Victoria. From the 1930s Holman was in the forefront of using new techniques to treat breast cancer and continued to search for alternatives to surgical mastectomy. His work in this area attracted international attention. At the urging of Holman and several colleagues, the Australian and New Zealand Association of Radiology (later Radiologists) was founded in 1935.

Details

Chronology

1923
Education - MB BS, University of Melbourne
1924
Career position - Resident Medical Officer, Melbourne Hospital
1925 - 1928
Career position - Honorary radiologist, St Margaret's Hospital, Launceston
1928 - 1952
Career position - Radiologist (part-time), St Margaret's Hospital, Launceston
1935 - 1949
Career position - Founding Member, Australian and New Zealand Association of Radiology (later Radiologists)
1938 - 1972
Career position - Founding Fellow, Royal Australasian College of Physicians
1939
Career position - President, Tasmanian Branch, British Medical Association
1939
Career position - Elected Fellow, Faculty of Radiologists, London
1949 - 1952
Career position - Fellow, College of Radiologists (Australian and New Zealand)
1950 - 1951
Career position - President, College of Radiologists (Australian and New Zealand)
1952 - 1954
Career position - Assistant Medical Director, Cancer Institute Board of Victoria
1952 - 1972
Award - Fellow, College of Radiologists of Australasia
1954 - 1966
Career position - Medical Director, Cancer Institute Board of Victoria
1958 - 1960
Career position - President, Royal Australasian College of Physicians

Related Corporate Bodies

Published resources

Books

  • Launceston General Hosptial Historical Committee, Historical Figures and Their Impact on Medicine in Launceston: Dr F. Drake, Miss J. Milne and Dr W.P. Holman: Papers and Proceedings, Historical Seminar, 14 October 2012 (Launceston: Launceston General Hospital Historical Committee, 2012), 97 pp. Details
  • McDonald, G. L., Roll of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (Sydney: Royal Australasian College of Physicians, 1988), 332 pp. Details

Book Sections

Resources

Helen Cohn

EOAS ID: biogs/P005859b.htm

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
What do we mean by this?

Published by Swinburne University of Technology.
This Edition: 2024 November (Ballambar - Gariwerd calendar - early summer - season of butterflies)
Reference: http://www.bom.gov.au/iwk/calendars/gariwerd.shtml#ballambar
For earlier editions see the Internet Archive at: https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.eoas.info

The Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation uses the Online Heritage Resource Manager (OHRM), a relational data curation and web publication system developed by the eScholarship Research Centre and its predecessors at the University of Melbourne 1999-2020. The OHRM has been maintained by Gavan McCarthy since 2020.

Cite this page: https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P005859b.htm

"... the rengitj, as a visible mark or imprint on the land, is characterised as a place of origin, the repository of all names, as well as a kind of mapped visual expression of the connection between people and places which is to be carried out in the temporal sequence of the journey." Fanca Tamisari (1998) 'Body, Vision and Movement: In the footprints of the ancestors'. Oceania 68(4) p260