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Alan Glynn (bacteriologist)
British physician and bacteriologist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Professor Alan Glynn FRCP, FRCPath (1923-2014) was a British physician and bacteriologist.
Professor Alan Glynn | |
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![]() Glynn in June 1998 | |
Born | (1923-05-09)9 May 1923 Hackney, London, England |
Died | 2 April 2014(2014-04-02) (aged 90) |
Nationality | United Kingdom |
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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]