A meeting in August 1946 with William Valentine Mayneord, while Mayneord was at the Atomic Energy Project at Chalk River, Ontario, contributed to Johns's making a career in medical physics.
He was educated at Prince Henry's School, Evesham and gained a Bachelor of Science at the University of Birmingham
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He entered the field of medical physics in 1924 at St Bart's Hospital in London.
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It was during a meeting in 1946 with a young Harold Elford Johns, inventor of the cobalt-60 teletherapy unit, that Johns was prompted to go into medical physics.
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