Frederick William Andrewes
Sir Frederick William Andrewes | |
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![]() Sir Frederick William Andrewes. Photograph by J. Russell & S. Wellcome Courtesy of Wellcome Trust | |
Born | |
Died | 24 February 1932 London[1] | (aged 72)
Nationality | British |
Occupation(s) | Physician, pathologist, and bacteriologist |
Sir Frederick William Andrewes
Biography
After education at Oakley House School in Reading, Frederick Andrewes matriculated on 11 October 1878 at
He did research on the classification of streptococci,[6] the histology of lymphadenoma, immunology,[2] and arterial degeneration.[1]
In bacteriology, ... Andrewes was the first, in association with Horder, to classify streptococci into three main groups—pyogenes, or haemolyticus; salivarius or viridans; and faecalis, or the enterococcus.[3]
Horder, as well as John Hannah Drysdale,[7] Hugh Thursfield, Frank Atcherley Rose, and W. Girling Ball,[8] were, early in their careers, demonstrators in pathology under Andrewes.[3]
He was an early member of the Medical Research Council and during the 1914-1918 War accomplished valuable work on dysentery bacilli ...[2]
On 25 July 1895[9] in Islington, London, he married Phyllis Mary Hamer. They had a son, Christopher Howard Andrewes, and a daughter.[2]
Awards and honours
- 1895 — FRCP
- 1906 — Dobell Lecturer in 1906[10]
- 1910 — Croonian Lecturer (of the Royal College of Physicians)[11]
- 1915 — FRS[12]
- 1919 — OBE[2]
- 1920 — Harveian Orator[13]
- 1920 — Knighthood[2]
References
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- ^ a b c d e f g "Frederick William (Sir) Andrewes". Royal College of Physicians, Lives of the Fellows, Munk's Roll, Vol. IV.
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- ^ "Alfred Antunes Kanthack". Royal College of Physicians, Lives of the Fellows, Munk's Roll, Vol. IV.
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- ^ "John Hannah Drysdale". Royal College of Physicians, Lives of the Fellows, Munk's Roll, Vol. IV.
- ^ "Ball, Sir William Girling (1881–1945)". Plarr's Lives of the Fellows, Royal College of Surgeons.
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- ^ Andrewes, F. W. The Croonian lectures on the behaviour of the leucocytes in infection and immunity: delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London on June 14th, 16th, 21st, and 23rd, 1910.
- ^ "Andrewes, Frederick William". Who's Who. 1919. p. 48.
- ^ Andrewes, F. W. (1920). The birth and growth of science in medicine: being the Harveian oration delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London, October 18th, 1920. Harveian oration ;1920. Adlard and W. Newman.