T. J. Hamblin

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Professor Terence Hamblin

Terence John Hamblin (12 March 1943 – 8 January 2012) was a British academic and scientist who was professor of immunohaematology at the University of Southampton from 1987 until his death.

Life and career

Born in

Farnborough Grammar School (1954–1961)[1] and the University of Bristol.[2]

He was appointed as Consultant Haematologist in Bournemouth in 1974. He pursued a research career in

chronic lymphocytic leukaemia. He was awarded a Guernsey Fellowship for stem cell transplantation in 1986 and the Binet-Rai Medal for outstanding research in CLL in 2002.[2]

He was a prolific author of books, chapters, original peer-reviewed articles, reviews, editorials, and web articles on scientific and medical topics. He was editor of the scientific journal Leukemia Research (1986-) and a columnist for the comic/medical political magazine World Medicine (1976–84).[2]

His most important research discovery was that chronic lymphocytic leukaemia comes in two forms, depending on whether the

immunoglobulin heavy chain variable region genes contain somatic mutations. If they do, the survival of the patient averages 25 years; if they do not, the survival of the patient averages 8 years.[citation needed
]

Hamblin presented the

BBC 2 episode 'Of Mice and Men' (1998) in its Counterblast series, in which he argued for the use of animals in medical research.[3]

He publicised the fact that, contrary to popular belief,

BMJ paper that the belief in spinach having a high iron content was due to a decimal point error that was discovered in the 1930s;[4] Mike Sutton published an article in 2010 questioning Hamblin's story.[5] In a later article, Sutton discovered that, contrary to popular belief, Hamblin was not the original source of the spinach, Popeye, decimal error myth.[6] Hamblin died on 8 January 2012 of cancer.[2]

References

  1. Farnborough Grammar School
  2. ^ a b c d Obituary for Professor Terry Hamblin - The Telegraph - 24 January 2012
  3. ^ "BBC Two - Counterblast, Series 2, Of Mice Or Men". BBC.
  4. ^ Hamblin, T.J.(1981) Fake! British Medical Journal Vol. 283.19–26 December. pp.1671-1674
  5. ^ Sutton, M. (2010) Spinach Iron and Popeye: Ironic lessons from biochemistry and history on the importance of healthy eating, healthy scepticism and adequate citation Archived 1 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine. Internet Journal of Criminology
  6. ^ "BestThinking / Articles / Science / Chemistry / Biochemistry / The Spinach, Popeye, Iron, Decimal Error Myth is Finally Busted (Article)". Archived from the original on 28 December 2014. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
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