Antoine Béclère (1856-1939): founder of radiotherapy.

Who was Dr Antoine Béclère? "One of the founders of virology and immunology" declare the microbiologists. "Founder of French Radiology" proclaims the special postage stamp bearing his portrait, issued in 1957 in France. "Founder" he truly was in both these fields, when we consider the important contribution of his "oeuvre princeps" to the development of the discoveries of Louis Pasteur and of Wilhelm Roentgen. With regard to medical radiology -both diagnostic and therapeutic- which he created in its entirety, almost every advance in this prodigiously fertile new science bears his imprint.