Commentary
Obituary: Dr John MG Davis PhD, DSc, FRCPath
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Correspondence: Anthony Seaton a.seaton@abdn.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor of Environmental and Occupational Medicine The University of Aberdeen, King's College, Aberdeen, AB24 3FX, UK
8 Avon Grove, Edinburgh EH4 6RF, UK
Particle and Fibre Toxicology 2011, 8:34 doi:10.1186/1743-8977-8-34
Published: 21 December 2011First paragraph (this article has no abstract)
John Davis, who died aged 76 on October 21st 2011, was a leading researcher into asbestos and coal related diseases. In his role as head of pathology at the Institute of Occupational Medicine (IOM) in Edinburgh he led a group of scientists who were to make important contributions not just to the understanding of classical occupational diseases but also to the recent literature on nanotoxicology.