Richard Todd actor also narrated at least one TV documentary about the Dambusters and contributed forewords to many books on the subject, including "The Dam Busters" by Jonathan Falconer (2003), "Filming the Dam Busters" by Jonathan Falconer (2005) and most recently "Bouncing-Bomb Man: The Science of Sir Barnes Wallis" by Iain Murray (2009). Todd died at his home near Grantham, Lincolnshire on 3 December 2009. His body was buried between his two sons Seamus and Peter at St. Guthlac's Church in Little Ponton, in the county of Lincolnshire. The gravestone's epitaph reads – "Richard Andrew Palethorpe Todd, 1919–2009, husband of Virginia and
Nicholas Thatcher He has written several hundred peer-reviewed papers in major scientific medical journals and has directed several PhD thesis. He is joint editor of the textbook, "New perspectives in lung cancer / edited by Nick Thatcher and Stephen Spiro.", 2nd ed, Edited by Martin Muers, Nicholas Thatcher, Francis Wells & Andrew Miles. London : BMJ Publishing, 1994. . His most cited papers, according to Google Scholar are: Though a professor of oncology he continued to smoke throughout his career stating that it gave him impetus to conduct research into lung cancer. Nicholas Thatcher Nicholas Thatcher is Professor of Oncology at the