Allan Everett Marble

Allan Everett Marble (born 1939) is a Canadian biomedical engineer, genealogist and medical historian from Nova Scotia. Marble taught a variety of subjects in Nova Scotian universities for over 40 years, and is professor emeritus at Dalhousie University. He was awarded the Order of Nova Scotia in 2024.

Biography Allan Everett Marble was born in 1939 in Truro, Nova Scotia. He attended Colchester County Academy and Dartmouth High School, following which he earned a doctorate at Dalhousie University. He joined the Royal Canadian Army in 1963, serving as a Lieutenant until 1966.

Marble taught in Nova Scotian universities for over 40 years, beginning in 1967. He taught physics, mathematics, surgery, and biomedical engineering. As an associate professor at Dalhousie University's Department of Surgery, Marble's medical research focused on the cardiovascular system. He was the director of research there from 1988 to 1996, with his research contributing to improved vascular grafting outcomes in advanced cardiovascular surgery. During his time at Dalhousie, he helped to establish their School of Biomedical Engineering. He was named professor emeritus of Dalhousie University in 2000, and retired from teaching in 2010.

Marble is a certified genealogist. He was a founding member of the Genealogical Institute of the Maritimes in 1982, and was president of the Genealogical Association of Nova Scotia twice: first in the 1990s, and again from 2010 to 2015. He has served on the executive boards of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society and the Dalhousie Society for the History of Medicine; from 2016 to 2017, he was chair of the Medical History Society of Nova Scotia.

In 2024, Marble was appointed to the Order of Nova Scotia in recognition of his contributions to Nova Scotian heritage and biomedical engineering.

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