Researching Rod Smallwood
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The name Rod means "Form of RODNEY. from the island clearing" and is of German origin.
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Rod Smallwood
Roderick Charles Smallwood (born 17 February 1950) is an English music manager, best known as the co-manager of the British heavy metal band Iron Maiden. With his business partner, Andy Taylor, whom he met while studying at Trinity College, Cambridge, he founded the Sanctuary Records Group in 1979, which became the largest independent record label in the UK and the largest independent music management company in the world until its closure in 2007. Prior to managing Iron Maiden, Smallwood managed Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel.
Source: Rod Smallwood, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Rod Smallwood (medical engineer)
Professor Rodney Harris Smallwood FREng, HonFRCP, FIET, FInstP, FIPEM (born 1945), known as Rod, is a British medical engineer and computer scientist.
Smallwood graduated in Physics from University College London, then studied solid-state physics at Lancaster University, before working for the National Health Service in Sheffield and gaining a PhD from the University of Sheffield.
He was appointed Professor of Medical Engineering and Head of the academic Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering Department at the University of Sheffield in 1995, took a computer science post in 2002, and subsequently became Professor of Computational Systems Biology and the Director of Research for Engineering.
He has served as president of the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine.
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