Graham Selby Wilson
Graham Selby Wilson | |
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| Born | September 10, 1895 |
| Died | April 5, 1987 (aged 91) |
| Resting place | Highgate Cemetery |
Sir Graham Selby Wilson FRS (10 September 1895 – 5 April 1987) was a noted bacteriologist.
Biography[]
Family grave of Graham Selby Wilson in Highgate Cemetery
He was educated at Epsom College, King's College London and Charing Cross Hospital.[1]
He was a Lecturer in Bacteriology at the University of Manchester from 1923 to 1927 and Professor of Bacteriology as applied to Hygiene at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine from 1930 to 1947.
He was knighted in 1962, awarded the Buchanan Medal of the Royal Society in 1967,[2] and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1978.
He is buried with his wife and son on the eastern side of Highgate Cemetery.
References[]
- ^ ‘WILSON, Sir Graham (Selby)’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016
- ^ "Buchanan Medal". Royal Society. Retrieved 16 March 2016.
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