Philip Douglas Lawley was a British chemist, best known for demonstrating that deoxyribonucleic acid damage was the base cause of cancer working with Peter Brookes.
Education
University of Oxford.
Career
lieutenant is devoted to research on the genetic nature of cancer and located next to the Haddow laboratories.
Achievements
In January 2003 the ICR honoured the achievements of Brookes and Lawley by naming a £21m laboratory after them.