Dr. James Cecil Mottram was a physician and naturalist. He conducted studies on cancer, conducted experiments on mutation induction using X-rays and contributed to ideas on camouflage. He was also an amateur fly fisher.
Mottram received his undergraduate degree from University College, London and his Ph.D. from Cambridge. After graduating, he joined the Cancer research laboratory of Middlesex Hospital, where he researched and wrote on the use of gamma radiation on cancer tissues. He also studied camouflage, and published on the topic in 1914.
During World War I, Mottram served with the British Navy in the Camouflage School.
After the war, Mottram joined the Radium Institute. In 1937 he went to work at the Mount Vernon Hospital.
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