Alan Glynn (bacteriologist)

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Alan Glynn

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Glynn in June 1998
Born(1923-05-09)9 May 1923
Hackney, London, England
Died2 April 2014(2014-04-02) (aged 90)
Nationality United Kingdom
Occupations

Professor Alan Glynn FRCP, FRCPath (1923-2014) was a British physician and bacteriologist.

Glynn was born in Hackney, London, on 9 May 1923, the son of Charlotte, née Fluxbaum, and Hyman Glynn, an accountant. His Jewish parents had arrived in London from Poland/ Russia as children in the 1890s. [1]

He underwent National Service in the Royal Army Medical Corps from 1950, being stationed in occupied Hamburg, with the rank of captain. [1]

From 1956 to 1958 he undertook clinical practise at St Mary's Hospital, London. [2] While there he became interested in bacteriology, eventually being made a professor in 1971 and head of the Department of Bacteriology in 1974. [2]

He was director of the Central Public Health Laboratory from 1980 to 1988, when he retired. [2]

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP) and a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists (FRCPath). [2]

He died on 2 April 2014. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Munks Roll Details for Alan Anthony Glynn". Munks Roll. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Lois Reynolds; Tilli Tansey, eds. (2003). Foot and Mouth Disease: The 1967 outbreak and its aftermath. Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine. History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group. ISBN   978-0-85484-096-0. OL   11612220M. Wikidata   Q29581674.