Rupert Allan Willis

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Rupert Allan Willis (born December 24, 1898 in Yarram , Victoria , Australia , † March 26, 1980 in Birkenhead , Merseyside , England ) was an Australian pathologist and professor at the University of Leeds .

life and work

Willis was born as the eldest son of bank accountant Benjamin James Willis and his wife Mary Elizabeth Giles. James born. He went to school first in his native Yarram and later in Melbourne . Willis then studied at the University of Melbourne , where he got his BS and MB in 1922 . He received his MD in 1929, the D.Sc. 1932. He worked for two years as a medical officer at Melbourne's Alfred Hospital .

On February 14, 1924, he married the nurse Margaret Tolhurst († 1962). The couple initially lived in Lilydale , Tasmania . With his wife he had a son and a daughter. In 1927 Willis returned to Melbourne, where he became chief physician at the Austin Hospital for Incurable and Chronic Diseases, Heidelberg . As one of his first official acts, he removed the term incurable (German: "incurable") from the name of the clinic. He worked intensively on cancer and carried out hundreds of autopsies on cancer patients. In 1930 he became chief pathologist at Alfred Hospital . For his first monograph The Spread of Tumors in the Human Body (1934) he received the David Syme Research Prize in 1935 . In his work he describes the Dormancy tumor and thus coined this name.

In 1945 Willis was appointed Professor of Human and Comparative Pathology at the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in London . In 1948 he went to the Royal Cancer Hospital in Fulham as head of pathology and in 1950 as professor of pathology at the University of Leeds . Due to illness, he had to retire in 1955. He settled in Nancledra ( Cornwall down), where he held a private laboratory that the Medical Research Council funded. One of the main projects was research into the effects of tobacco smoke on the lung tissue of rats . In 1969 he moved to Heswall ( Cheshire ).

Publications (selection)

Books

  • RA Willis: Pathology of tumors. Butterworths, 1967
  • RA Willis: Teratomas. National Academies, 1951
  • RA Willis: Spread of tumors in the human body. J. & A. Churchill, 1934
  • RA Willis: The pathology of the tumors of children. Oliver and Boyd, 1962

Technical article

  • RA Willis: The unusual in tumor pathology. In: Can Med Assoc J 97, 1967, pp. 1466-1479. PMID 6061610 ; PMC 1923665 (free full text).
  • RA Willis: The homografting of fracture callus in rats. In: J Pathol Bacteriol 79, 1960, pp. 115-121. PMID 13844987
  • RA Willis: The growth of young embryos transplanted whole into the brain in rats. In: J Pathol Bacteriol 76, 1958, pp. 337-342. PMID 13588469
  • RA Willis: Squamous-cell mammary carcinoma of predominantly fibrosarcoma-like structure. In: J Pathol Bacteriol 76, 1958, pp. 511-515. PMID 13588487
  • RA Willis: The borderland of embryology and pathology. In: Bull NY Acad Med 26, 1950, pp. 440-460. PMID 15426876 ; PMC 1930017 (free full text)
  • RA Willis: tumor seminar. In: Tex State J Med 46, 1950, pp. 611-638. PMID 15431193
  • RA Willis: The pathology of osteoclastoma or giant-cell tumor of bone. In: J Bone Joint Surg Am 31B, 1949, pp. 236-240. PMID 18150538
  • RA Willis: Teratomas and Mixed Tumors in Animals and their Bearings on Human Pathology. In: Proc R Soc Med 40, 1947, pp. 635-636. PMID 19993638 ; PMC 2184023 (free full text)
  • RA Willis: Comments on sacrococcygeal teratomas. In: Proc R Soc Med 40, 1947, pp. 879-880. PMID 18919289 ; PMC 2184295 (free full text).
  • RA Willis: Metastatic neuroblastoma in bone presenting the Ewing syndrome, with a discussion of "Ewing's sarcoma". In: Am J Pathol 16, 1940, pp. 317-332. PMID 19970507 ; PMC 1965133 (free full text).
  • RA Willis: Metastatic Tumors in the Thyreoid Gland. In: Am J Pathol 7, 1931, pp. 187-208. PMID 19969962 ; PMC 2062637 (free full text).

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personal data
SURNAME Willis, Rupert Allan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian pathologist and oncologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Yarram , Victoria , Australia
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 1980
Place of death Birkenhead , England