Ewan Cameron

Ewan Cameron (1922 to 1991) was a Scottish physician who worked with Linus Pauling on research into vitamin C. Born in Dumbarton, he took his medical degree at the University of Glasgow in 1944 and served as an army medical officer in Burma for three years. He was consultant surgeon at the Vale of Leven Hospital in Dunbartonshire from 1956 to 1982, becoming senior consultant surgeon in 1973, and held fellowships from the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of Glasgow and Edinburgh. He published Hyaluronidase and Cancer in 1966, began corresponding with Pauling in 1971 and published Cancer and Vitamin C with him in 1979. After retiring in 1982 he became medical director and senior research professor at the Linus Pauling Institute.