Robert Russell Race
Robert Russell Race CBE (born November 28, 1907 in Hull , † April 15, 1984 ) was a British serologist and blood group specialist.
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Race attended St. Paul's School in London and studied at St. Bartholomew's Hospital of the University of London Medicine with the conclusion of 1933. After that, he was there in the laboratory of pathology and also in 1937 at the Galton Laboratory of University College London at Ronald Fisher , where he for this built up a blood group unit. During the Second World War, she worked in the Pathology Department of the University of Cambridge on the production and typing of blood sera for transfusion purposes. Immediately after the discovery of the rhesus factors in the USA in 1941, Race worked on their further elucidation. In 1946 he became head of the blood group unit at the Lister Institute in London, which was part of the Medical Research Council .
Race co- authored with Ruth Sanger a standard work on human blood types that first appeared in 1950. With Sanger he discovered, among other things, the Xg blood group system in his institute at the end of 1961. In 1973 he retired as director of the blood group unit (successor was his wife Ruth Sanger), but remained scientifically active.
He had been a Fellow of the Royal Society since 1952 and was elected a member of the Leopoldina in 1973. He was married twice, his first marriage since 1938 to Monica Rotten (she died in 1955), with whom he had three daughters, and his second marriage from 1956 to Ruth Sanger.
In 1957 he and Sanger received the Karl Landsteiner Memorial Award , in 1970 both received the Philip Levine Award and in 1972 both received the Gairdner Foundation International Award . In 1970 he became CBE .
Fonts
- with Ruth Sanger Blood Groups in Man , 6th edition, Oxford: Blackwell 1975
- German translation The blood groups of people , Thieme 1958
literature
- Cyril Clarke , Biographical Memoirs Fellows Royal Society 1985, first page at jstor
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Race, Robert Russell |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British medic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 28, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hull |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 15, 1984 |