About Alan Glynn
Lived 1923 – 2014 (aged 91). Alan Glynn was a British physician and bacteriologist.
Alan Glynn (1923-2014) was a British physician and bacteriologist.
Glynn was born in Hackney, London, on 9 May 1923, the son of Charlotte, née Fluxbaum, and Hyman Glynn, an accountant. His Jewish parents had arrived in London from Poland/ Russia as children in the 1890s.
He underwent National Service in the Royal Army Medical Corps from 1950, being stationed in occupied Hamburg, with the rank of captain. While there he became interested in bacteriology, eventually being made a professor in 1971 and head of the Department of Bacteriology in 1974.
He was director of the Central Public Health Laboratory from 1980 to 1988, when he retired.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP) and a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists (FRCPath).
He died on 2 April 2014.
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Who was Alan Glynn?
bacteriologist
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Alan Glynn was born on 17 January 1923 in London Borough of Hackney, London.
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Alan Glynn died on 17 January 2014.
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Alan Glynn was a physician and bacteriologist.
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Alan Glynn was British.
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