John Russell Anderson CBE FRSE (31 May 1918 – 30 October 2011) was a Scottish pathologist, Professor of Pathology at the Western Infirmary, University of Glasgow, 1967–1983.[1][2][3][4] Colleagues knew him as JRA.
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Life
Anderson was born in Middlesbrough on 31 May 1918, the son of a Glasgow-trained GP. He won a scholarship to study medicine at the University of St Andrews. He 1939 he graduated with a BSc in Anatomy, and MB in 1942.[5]
After graduation he worked in hospitals in Dundee and began specialising in pathology under Prof Daniel Fowler Cappell. He then spent 1945 to 1947 completing National Service in Ghana, Libya and Egypt. He rose to the rank of captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps.
He returned to Scotland to lecture in Pathology at the University of Glasgow, also working at Glasgow Western Infirmary. He then became the George Holt Professor of Pathology at the University of Liverpool. In 1967 he returned to Glasgow as Professor of Pathology at the University..[6]
In 1968, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Anderson was a founder member of the British Society for Immunology.[7]
He retired in 1983, and died on 30 October 2011.
Publications
- Immune Antibodies (1955)
- Auto-Immunity, Clinical and Experimental (1967)
References
- ^ ‘ANDERSON, Prof. John Russell’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Nov 2012 accessed 29 Sept 2013
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "University of Glasgow :: Story :: Biography of John Anderson". universitystory.gla.ac.uk. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
- ^ "Inspiring Physicians | RCP Museum". history.rcplondon.ac.uk. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
- ^ "Past Fellows". The Royal Society of Edinburgh. 23 September 2016. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
- ^ "University of Glasgow :: Story :: Biography of John Anderson". www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
- ^ "Past Fellows". The Royal Society of Edinburgh. 23 September 2016. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
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