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Authorised form of nameDacie; John Vivian (1912 - 2005)
Dates1912 - 2005
NationalityBritish
Place of birthPutney, London, England
Date of birth20/07/1912
Date of death12/02/2005
OccupationHaematologist
ActivityEducation:
King's College School, Wimbledon; studied medicine at King's College, London; qualified in medicine at King's College Hospital (1936)
Career:
House jobs, King's College Hospital; Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital; research post at Manchester Royal Infirmary; served in Royal Army Medical Corps (1943-1946), ended up a lieutenant colonel; Senior Lecturer, Postgraduate Medical School; Professor, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, London University, Hammersmith (1956), founder of Leukaemia Research Unit, Hammersmith Hospital (1969); founder and editor, British Journal of Haematology; President, Royal College of Pathologists (1973-1975); President, Royal Society of Medicine (1977); retired 1977; founder of Leukaemia Research Fund, Great Ormond Street, London (1960); discovered and named Christmas disease, rare form of haemophilia; lifelong interest in lepidoptera
Honours:
Kt 1976
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election16/03/1967
Age at election54
RSActivityRoyal Society roles:
Council: 1979-1981
RelationshipsMarried (1938) Margaret Thynne
SourceObituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2006 vol 52 pp 67-82, plate, by Mitchell Lewis, Patrick, Mollison and David Weatherall
Obituaries in Telegraph (19 February 2005), Guardian (11 March 2005), Times (17 March 2003)
CodeNA3920
Archives associated with this Fellow
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IM/GA/AR/7347Dacie, Sir John Viviannd
IM/GA/WRS/9615Dacie, Sir John Viviannd
EC/1967/06Dacie, John Vivian: certificate of election to the Royal Society
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