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British haematologist
Sir John Vivian Dacie ,
FRS (20 July 1912
Putney , London – 12 February 2005)
[1] was a British
haematologist .
[2]
[3]
Education
He was born in Putney, London and educated at
King's College School, Wimbledon , after which he studied medicine at
King's College Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1936.[
citation needed ]
[4]
Career
He had house jobs at
King's College Hospital , the
Royal Postgraduate Medical School , London University, Hammersmith and a research post at
Manchester Royal Infirmary . During World War II (1943–1946) he served in the
Royal Army Medical Corps , ending up a lieutenant colonel. After the war he was a Senior Lecturer and then in 1956 Professor at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School.
[5]
He founded the Leukaemia Research Fund, Great Ormond Street, London (1960). His main achievements concerned the
Hemolytic anemias , a field in which he was a world leader.
[1] He discovered and named
Christmas disease , more commonly referred to as haemophilia B, a deficiency of coagulation
Factor IX .[
citation needed ]
[3]
[6]
Sir Dacie is credited with characterizing the relationship between
paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria and bone marrow failure syndromes like
aplastic anemia .
[7]
He was founder of the Leukaemia Research Unit, Hammersmith Hospital (1969) and founder and editor of the
British Journal of Haematology . He was elected President of the
Royal College of Pathologists (1973–1975) and the
Royal Society of Medicine (1977).
[4]
He had a lifelong interest in
lepidoptera . He was knighted in 1976 and retired in 1977.[
citation needed ]
[1]
Family
Dacie married Margaret Thynne in 1938. They had two daughters, three sons, and seven grandchildren.
[1]
Works
Practical Haematology. Churchill, 1950; 10th edition (2006),
LCCN
2005-53767
ISBN
0443066604 (pbk.)
Haemolytic Anemias. Churchill, 1954; 2nd edition, Part I (1960), Part II (1962); 3rd edition, 3 volumes (1988–1992)
LCCN
84-5849
References
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a
b
c
d Lewis, M.; Mollison, P.; Weatherall, D. (2006).
"Sir John Vivian Dacie. 20 July 1912 -- 12 February 2005: Elected FRS 1967" .
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society . 52 : 67–82.
doi :
10.1098/rsbm.2006.0006 .
PMID
18543470 .
^
"Professor Sir John Dacie" , The Independent , 26 February 2005
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a
b
"Sir John Dacie" , The Guardian , Caroline Richmond, 11 March 2005
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a
b
Wright, P. (2005).
"Sir John Vivian Dacie" . The Lancet . 365 (9468): 1382.
doi :
10.1016/S0140-6736(05)66362-3 .
PMID
15864858 .
S2CID
34316887 .
^
"Professor Sir John Dacie" , The Telegraph , 19 February 2005.
^ Kopplin, Peter (2020).
"From eponym to advocate The story of Stephen Christmas" . Hektoen International .
^ Parker, C. J. (2002).
"Historical aspects of paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria: 'defining the disease' " . British Journal of Haematology . 117 (1): 3–22.
doi :
10.1046/j.1365-2141.2002.03374.x .
PMID
11918528 .
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