James Learmonth Gowans

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Sir James Learmonth Gowans

immunologist. In 1945, while studying medicine at King's College Hospital, he assisted at the liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camp as a voluntary medical student.[2]

Gowans was born in

George Bellamy Mackaness.[3]

He made significant discoveries about the role of lymphocytes in the immune response. In particular, he showed that some lymphocytes were not short-lived, as previously assumed, but moved from the blood into the lymphatic system and back. On the initiative of Peter Medawar he also undertook experiments on rats that showed that lymphocytes play an important role in transplant rejection.[citation needed]

In 1963, Gowans became a Fellow of the Royal Society. He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1971 New Year Honours for services to medical science and a Knight Bachelor in the 1982 New Year Honours.[4][5]

In 1980, he was awarded the

Gairdner Foundation International Award and in 1990 shared the first Medawar Prize with Jacques Miller. In 1974, he was awarded the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize. He won the Royal Medal in 1976.[7]

Family

In 1956, he married Moira Leatham, with whom he had a son and two daughters.[citation needed]

See also

References

  • ISBN 9780080533995
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  1. ^ Gowans
  2. ^ "Archive of Sir James Gowans". bodley.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
  3. S2CID 71237348
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  4. ^ "No. 45262". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 1970. p. 8.
  5. ^ "No. 48837". The London Gazette. 30 December 1981. p. 1.
  6. ^ "Honorary Members". Archived from the original on 10 October 2017. Retrieved 13 October 2017.
  7. ^ "Royal Medal". Retrieved 6 December 2008.
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