David Galton
Professor David Galton | |
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| Born | David Abraham Goitein Galton 1 March 1922 |
| Died | 28 November 2006 |
| Nationality | United Kingdom |
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David Abraham Goitein Galton CBE FRCP (1922-2006) was a British physician, specialising in haematology.
Galton was born on 1 March 1922 in London,[1] the son of a GP, Bernard, an Hungarian immigrant who had changed his surname from Goitein.[2]
He studied Medicine at Hackney Downs School (formerly The Grocers' Company's School) followed by Trinity College, Cambridge, and at University College Hospital,[2] graduating in 1946.[3]
He was Professor of Haemato-Oncology in the University of London at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School and Honorary Consultant Physician at the Hammersmith Hospital.[3]
He served as secretary to the Medical Research Council's working party on leukaemia, and later chaired its working party on leukaemia in adults, and its steering Committee on Leukaemia.[3]
He also served as Honorary Director of the MRC's Leukaemia Unit and Leukaemia Research Fund.[3]
He was a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP)[3] and was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1986 Birthday Honours.[4]
He died on 28 November 2006.[1] A collection of his papers is held at the Wellcome Library in London.[3]
References
- ^ a b "Professor David Galton". The Independent. 12 February 2007. Retrieved 17 June 2017.
- ^ a b "David Galton". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 17 June 2017.
- ^ a b c d e f Daphne Christie; Tilli Tansey, eds. (2003). Leukaemia. Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine. History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group. ISBN 978-0-85484-087-8. OL 21078818M. Wikidata Q29581665.
- ^ "No. 50551". The London Gazette (Supplement). 13 June 1986. pp. 1–26.
External links
- David Galton on the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group website
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