Lionel Emmett
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Representing  India
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1936 Berlin | Team competition |
Lionel Charles Renwick Emmett (8 January 1913 – 9 August 1996) was an Indian field hockey player and physician who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. He was a member of the Indian field hockey team, which won the gold medal. He played one match as forward.
Emmett was born in India in 1913. He received medical training in Calcutta Medical College. He served as a medical officer is the Indian Army Corps in field hospitals in India and Burma. He rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel. Later, he practiced as a general practitioners in the tea plantations of Assam. Following his retirement, he went to England in 1960s. He patented an Intra uterine contraceptive device named Copper Omega.[1] Also, he developed two more medical devices: the Emmett Thread Retriever and the Emmett Thread Detector.
References
[edit]- ^ "Obituaries". British Medical Journal. 313 (7066): 1202. 9 November 1996. PMC 2352493.
External links
[edit]- Lionel Emmett at databaseOlympics.com (archived)
- Lionel Emmett at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Lionel Emmett at Olympedia (archive)
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