Murray Barr

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Murray Barr
Gairdner Foundation International Award
(1963)

Murray Llewellyn Barr OC FRSC FRS[1] (June 20, 1908 – May 4, 1995) was a Canadian physician and medical researcher who discovered with graduate student Ewart George Bertram, in 1948, an important cell structure, the "Barr body".[2]

Born in

Belmont, Ontario, he was educated at the University of Western Ontario, where he received his Bachelor of Arts in 1930, M.D. in 1933, and Master of Science in 1938. He was an RCAF wing commander between 1939 and 1945. From 1936 to 1977, he served as a faculty member at the University of Western Ontario. He was a member of The Harvey Club of London, the oldest medical club in Canada, which consisted of other noteworthy physicians in southwestern Ontario, and was loosely associated with the University of Western Ontario
.

In 1955, he collaborated with

Karyotyping
and chromosome studies were then used to study these errors further. This research provided a major advancement in understanding the cause of various congenital syndromes.

Murray Barr published two books, The Human Nervous System and A Century of Medicine at Western. "The Human Nervous System" was used as the primary neuroanatomy textbook by medical students for several years.

He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

In 1968, he was made an Officer of the

Gairdner Foundation International Award and in 1972 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of London.[1] In 1998, he was posthumously inducted into Canadian Medical Hall of Fame.[3]

References

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  3. ^ William J. Brady (July 10, 2008). Murray Llewellyn Barr. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)

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