|
Thomas Henry Flewett, MD, FRCPath, FRCP (29 June 1922 – 12 December 2006) was a founder member (and subsequently Fellow) of the Royal College of Pathologists and was elected (by distinction) a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London in 1978. He was chairman of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Steering Committee on Viral Diarrhoeal Diseases, 1990–3, and a member until 1996. His laboratory in Birmingham was a World Health Organisation Reference and Research Centre for Rotavirus Infections from 1980 until his retirement in 1987. He was an external examiner, visiting lecturer, and scientific journal editor. He was a member of the board of the Public Health Laboratory Service (now Public Health England) from 1977 to 1983 and was Chairman of the Public Health Laboratory Service, Committee on Electron Microscopy from 1977 to 1987. Flewett received his medical education at Queen's University, Belfast, where he graduated with honours at the end of the World War II in 1945. == Childhood == Flewett was born in Shimla India, where his father, William Edward Flewett, a graduate of Oxford University, was a member of the Imperial Forestry Service,〔P. S. Sharma, ''The Indian Forester'', Vol 50, p. xxii, (1924)〕 that, in 1966, became the Indian Forest Service of the Indian Civil Service.〔(Lives of the Fellows, Royal College of Physicians )〕 His mother wrote in a birthday card to him "I was so pleased when the servants told me that I had given birth to a boy".〔Card found during the demolition of the W.H.O. Laboratory for Reference and Research on Rotaviruses, 1996〕 His father was transferred to Lahore in 1924.〔 Thomas had "a joyous childhood" which was often spent "riding on the backs of elephants". He was educated at Campbell College in Belfast.〔Obituary Thomas Henry Flewett. BMJ 2007; 334 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.39167.721898.FA (Published 5 April 2007) BMJ 2007;334:753.3〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thomas Henry Flewett」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|