page_title: Alexander Haddow
hierarchical_section_title: Alexander Haddow
caption_attribution_description: Sir Alexander Haddow. Pathologist and cancer researcher. Photograph by W. Churcher. NB: Name changed in line with this image from the Institute of Cancer Research, unfortunately no other way to link it but through Pinterest. Link of the image. Obituary Iconographic Collections Keywords: portrait photographs
context_page_description: Sir Alexander Haddow FRS FRSE was a Scottish physician and pathologist at the forefront of cancer research in the 1940s. He served as Director of the Institute of Cancer Research from 1946 to 1969. He was also President of the Universal Union Against Cancer.
  His most important discovery was the Haddow Effect, by which a carcinogenic compound can be used to arrest a cancer whose origin is an unrelated carcinogen.
context_section_description: Sir Alexander Haddow FRS FRSE (18 January 1907 – 21 January 1976) was a Scottish physician and pathologist at the forefront of cancer research in the 1940s. He served as Director of the Institute of Cancer Research from 1946 to 1969. He was also President of the Universal Union Against Cancer.
  His most important discovery was the Haddow Effect, by which a carcinogenic compound can be used to arrest a cancer whose origin is an unrelated carcinogen.
caption: Portrait. Credit: Wellcome Collection
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