Henri Coutard, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Henri Coutard

French oncologist

Date of Birth: 27-Apr-1876

Place of Birth: Marolles-les-Braults, Pays de la Loire, France

Date of Death: 16-Mar-1950

Profession: mountaineer, oncologist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Henri Coutard (27 April 1876 – 16 March 1950) was a French pioneer in radiation oncology and is credited with establishing radiotherapy as a clinical discipline.
He performed early work on the therapeutic use of Radium emanation. Henri Coutard was born in Marolles-les-Braults in Sarthe, France in 1876 and died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Le Mans, France in 1950.
He began his education in Caen and graduated in 1902 from the University of Paris.
Coutard was stricken with pulmonary tuberculosis and so he moved to the alpine area of Jura and took up the hobby of mountaineering.
Coutard practiced medicine during this recovery period.
He then returned to Paris and started his researches with the recently discovered Radium at the Laboratoire d’Essais of Gif in the banlieue of Paris.
In 1912 Coutard publish his first work on the therapeutic use of Radium emanation.