British physician
Not to be confused with the British physician and researcher
David J. Galton.
Professor David Galton |
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| Born | David Abraham Goitein Galton
(1922-03-01)1 March 1922
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| Died | (2006-11-28)28 November 2006 |
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| 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, a 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]
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