Kenneth Boyd Fraser

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Prof Kenneth Boyd Fraser

Second World War.[1] He was known to friends as Kenny Fraser. He introduced Immunofluorescence in both academic and clinical fields. He discovered a link between the measles virus and multiple sclerosis.[1]

Life

He was born in Aberdeen on 10 March 1917, the son of Kenneth Fraser and Mary Fraser (née Boyd). He studied Medicine at

Aberdeen University
graduating MB ChB in 1940.

In 1941, he joined the

Burma. Here a combined British and Indian force fought Japanese troops. In 1943 Fraser won the Military Cross for rescuing a sepoy whilst under heavy fire and then carrying him on his back 3 km over rough terrain to a place of safety.[2][3]

He returned to

Glasgow University as senior lecturer in the Institute of Virology
.

In 1961 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Guido Pontecorvo, Daniel Fowler Cappell, Norman Davidson, and William Ogilvy Kermack.[4]

In 1966 he was appointed Professor of Micobiology at Queen's University Belfast. On his death he left £50,000 to the university to fund the Kenneth B Fraser Memorial Lecture.[5]

In 1982 he retired to Altnaha near Tomintoul. He died on 17 July 2001.

Publications

  • Measles Virus and Its Biology (1978)[6]
  • Don't Believe A Word Of It (a memoir of his days in the Chin Hills)

Family

In 1948 he married Dr Leslie Fraser who predeceased him.[7]

References

  1. ^
    PMC 1122408
    .
  2. ^ Morag C Timbury, Thomas A Mcneill and Margaret Haire (18 August 2004). "Kenneth Boyd Fraser" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 August 2016. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
  3. ^ The London Gazette 19 October 1944
  4. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original
    (PDF) on 24 January 2013. Retrieved 13 June 2016.
  5. ^ "Queen's University Belfast | Special University and Memorial Lectureships". Archived from the original on 30 April 2016. Retrieved 13 June 2016.
  6. ^ "Amazon.co.uk: Kenneth Boyd Fraser: Books, Biography, Blogs, Audiobooks, Kindle". amazon.co.uk. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
  7. ^ Melissa Sweet (19 February 2002). "British Medical Journal Obituaries – Struan Sutherland" (PDF). Retrieved 12 February 2018.