Papers of Malcolm Andrew Ferguson-Smith, correspondence with Dr Victor Almon McKusick

Date:
1964
Reference:
UGC 188/3/9
Part of:
Papers of Malcolm Andrew Ferguson-Smith, geneticist, Professor of Medical Genetics, University of Glasgow, Scotland
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Description

Correspondence with Dr Victor Almon McKusick about a draft paper.

Publication/Creation

1964

Physical description

1 folder

Arrangement

This series contains one file of correspondence and papers.

Biographical note

Malcolm Andrew Ferguson-Smith (1931- ) is a celebrated geneticist whose work on gene mapping has shaped our understanding of human evolution. Ferguson-Smith graduated MB, ChB in 1955 and was appointed a lecturer in Medical Genetics at the University in 1961. He was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1965, a Reader in 1971, and Professor of Medical Genetics in 1973. He was also Honorary Consultant in Medical Paediatrics at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children from 1966 and in Clinical Genetics at Yorkhill and Associated Hospitals from 1973 to 1987. In 1987, Ferguson-Smith left Glasgow to become Professor of Pathology and Professorial Fellow at Peterhouse College, Cambridge. He was also Director of the Cambridge University Centre for Medical Genetics from 1989. For a complete biography see the Malcolm Andrew Ferguson-Smith collection description.

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A digitised copy is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

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