Richard Alan Fox

Richard Alan Fox (born 1943) is an Australian medical physician. He was the son of Alan Fox, a businessman, and Rosalind Nee Morris.

He attended Aquinas College, Perth, the University of Western Australia and Oxford University. From 1970-1974 he was a Research Fellow in the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the University of Sussex and then for next four years a Scientific Assistant at the Institute of Cancer Research with the status of Lecturer at London University.

He returned to Perth in 1978 as Deputy Head of the Department of Medical Physics at the Royal Perth Hospital and became Head of the Department in 1980. In this position he enabled the hospital to operate at the forefront of medical technology. On his retirement in 2002 he was appointed Emeritus Consultant Physicist.

In 2000 became the Vice Chairman of the Australasian College of Physical Scientists and Engineers in Medicine.