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Graham Selby Wilson

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Portrait. Credit: Wellcome Library

Sir Graham Selby Wilson FRS (10 September 1895 – 5 April 1987) was a noted bacteriologist.

He was educated at Epsom College, King's College London and Charing Cross Hospital.[1] He was a Lecturer in Bacteriology at the University of Manchester from 1923 to 1927 and Professor of Bacteriology as applied to Hygiene at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine from 1930 to 1947. He was knighted in 1962, awarded the Buchanan Medal of the Royal Society in 1967,[2] and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1978.

References

  1. ^ ‘WILSON, Sir Graham (Selby)’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016
  2. ^ "Buchanan Medal". Royal Society. Retrieved 16 March 2016.