William Ewart Gye

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William Ewart Gye

pathologist and cancer researcher.[1][2][3]

Career

After a difficult financial struggle, Bullock matriculated at

Kipping
, graduated there with a BSc in 1906.

In 1911, Bullock married his first wife, Elsa Gye, who was a dedicated suffragette.[4] Bullock studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and in 1912 graduated there MBChB. In 1913 he received his Doctor of Medicine qualification from the university, and won a gold medal for his medical thesis.[5] He also won the Ellis Prize in Physiology for his essay, “The chemistry of nerve degeneration.”[6]

In 1913, he joined the staff of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund,[2] which at that time was under the direction of Ernest Francis Bashford.[7] When World War I started, Bullock joined the Royal Army Medical Corps and served in France and then Italy in charge of a field ambulance unit.[8] He was reassigned to London as a hospital pathologist and worked with William Cramer on gas gangrene.[9]

After demobilization with the rank of captain, he joined the National Institute for Medical Research at Hampstead, where he worked with Edgar Hartley Kettle on silicosis.[10] In June 1919,[11] William Bullock's wife retook her maiden name, and William Ewart Bullock changed his surname to "Gye",[4] perhaps because he wanted to please his wife[4] and perhaps because he was irritated by having to often explain that he was not the bacteriologist William Bulloch — there is a theory that the name change was in gratitude to a benefactor (not Bullock's wife or father-in-law).[12]

With W. J. Purdy, Gye conducted experiments confirming

Peyton Rous's claims concerning the Rous sarcoma virus.[13] Gye was the director of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund's laboratories at Mill Hill from 1934 to 1949, when he resigned due to ill health. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1938 and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1940.[citation needed
]

Gye's and his first wife, Elsa, had three sons together. She died of cancer in 1943. On 30 December 1944,[14] Gye married ophthalmologist Ida Mann (later Dame Ida Mann) and, in 1949, they moved to Perth, Western Australia.[8]

References

  1. ^ "Inspiring Physicians | RCP Museum – William Ewart Gye, Munks Roll Details, Lives of the fellows, Royal College of Physicians". munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk. Retrieved 11 January 2023.
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    S2CID 162165139
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  3. PMID 13013220
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  4. ^
    ISBN 9780415239264
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  5. ^ Bullock, W. E. (1913). "A contribution to the chemical pathology of the lipoids". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  6. ^ Bullock, W. E. (1913). "The chemistry of nerve degeneration". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  7. PMC 2316986
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  8. ^
    PMID 12978397
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  9. JSTOR 80697
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  10. PMC 2047740
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  11. ^ "William Ewart Gye" (PDF). The London Gazette. 15 July 1919. p. 9054.
  12. ^ Vischer, Peter (October 1925). "A Romance of the Microscope". Popular Science: 13–14. This story by Peter Vischer alleges that Bullock changed his surname to "Gye" before 1919, but this allegation is false.
  13. PMC 2048160
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  14. ^ "Biography - Dame Ida Caroline Mann – Australian Dictionary of Biography". adb.anu.edu.au. Retrieved 11 January 2023.
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