About Hubert Turnbull
Lived 1875 – 1955 (aged 80). Hubert Turnbull was a pathologist.
Hubert Maitland Turnbull FRS (3 March 1875, Glasgow – 29 September 1955) was a British pathologist.
Hubert Turnbull's father was the manager and actuary of the Scottish Widows Fund and Life Assurance Society and his mother was a daughter of the publisher Adam Black. After education at St Ninian's School, Moffat from 1884 to 1888 and at Charterhouse School from 1888 to 1894, Hubert Turnbull matriculated in 1894 at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. (Oxon.) in 1898. He pursued graduate study at Oxford and in 1899 received Oxford's Hugh Russell Welsh prize for the study of human anatomy and the art of drawing in relation thereto. In 1900 he began further study of medicine at the London Hospital and in 1902 received there M.B., B.Chir. (Oxon.). In 1902 he also received M.A. (Oxon.) and qualified M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P. From February to June 1903, he was a house physician at London Hospital but, due to illness, from June to November was unable to work. From November 1903 to July 1904, Turnbull worked at the London Hospital's Institute of Pathology and then studied at Copenhagen and Dresden as a recipient of Oxford's Radcliffe Travelling Fellowship in Medical Sciences. At Dresden he was a voluntary assistant to Georg Schmorl. The marriage produced four children (of the Royal London Hospital)
Awards and honours 1929 — Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians 1939 — F.R.S.
Selected publications with Theodore Thompson: (Plate 15 at end of article)
with James McIntosh: with James McIntosh: with Donald Hunter: with Mathew Young: with Otto Leyton & Allen B. Bratton: with J. Preston Maxwell & Cheng Hsiang Hu (程胡襄): with W. Russell Brain:
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Who was Hubert Turnbull?
British pathologist
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Hubert Turnbull was born on 17 January 1875 in Glasgow.
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Hubert Turnbull died on 17 January 1955.
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Hubert Turnbull was a pathologist.
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