Professor Alan Glynn | |
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![]() Glynn in June 1998 | |
Born | Hackney, London, England | 9 May 1923
Died | 2 April 2014 90) | (aged
Nationality | United Kingdom |
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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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