Alan Glynn (bacteriologist)

Professor Alan Glynn FRCP, FRCPath (1923-2014) was a British physician and bacteriologist.

Professor

Alan Glynn

FRCP, FRCPath
Glynn in June 1998
Born(1923-05-09)9 May 1923
Hackney, London, England
Died2 April 2014(2014-04-02) (aged 90)
NationalityUnited Kingdom
Occupation

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]

References
  1. "Munks Roll Details for Alan Anthony Glynn". Munks Roll. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
  2. Lois Reynolds; Tilli Tansey, eds. (2003), Foot and Mouth Disease: The 1967 outbreak and its aftermath, Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine, History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group, ISBN 978-0-85484-096-0, Wikidata Q29581674
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