Douglas Vernon Hubble
Paediatric endocrinologist, general practitioner, and professor of paediatrics
About Douglas Vernon Hubble
Lived 1900 – 1981 (aged 80). Douglas Vernon Hubble was a British general practitioner, pediatrician and physician.
Sir Douglas Vernon Hubble (25 December 1900 – 6 November 1981) was a paediatric endocrinologist, general practitioner, and professor of paediatrics and dean of medicine at the University of Birmingham.
Hubble returned to England upon his retirement and settled in Newbury, Berkshire. He became deaf late in life and died from multiple myeloma on 6 November 1981 in Edinburgh. he also received the British Medical Association's Dawson Williams Prize. He was appointed Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1954.
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Who was Douglas Vernon Hubble?
Paediatric endocrinologist, general practitioner, and professor of paediatrics
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Douglas Vernon Hubble was born on 25 December 1900 in Bournemouth.
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Douglas Vernon Hubble died on 6 November 1981 in Edinburgh.
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Douglas Vernon Hubble was a general practitioner, pediatrician and physician.
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Douglas Vernon Hubble was British.
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