David Galton

David Abraham Goitein Galton CBE FRCP (1922-2006) was a British physician, specialising in haematology.

Not to be confused with the British physician and researcher David J. Galton.

Professor

David Galton

CBE, FRCP
Born
David Abraham Goitein Galton

(1922-03-01)1 March 1922
London, England
Died(2006-11-28)28 November 2006
NationalityUnited Kingdom
Occupation

Galton was born on 1 March 1922 in London,[1] the son of a GP, Bernard, an Hungarian immigrant who had changed his surname from Goitein.[2]

He studied Medicine at Hackney Downs School (formerly The Grocers' Company's School) followed by Trinity College, Cambridge, and at University College Hospital,[2] graduating in 1946.[3]

He was Professor of Haemato-Oncology in the University of London at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School and Honorary Consultant Physician at the Hammersmith Hospital.[3]

He served as secretary to the Medical Research Council's working party on leukaemia, and later chaired its working party on leukaemia in adults, and its steering Committee on Leukaemia.[3]

He also served as Honorary Director of the MRC's Leukaemia Unit and Leukaemia Research Fund.[3]

He was a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP)[3] and was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1986 Birthday Honours.[4]

He died on 28 November 2006.[1] A collection of his papers is held at the Wellcome Library in London.[3]

References
  1. "Professor David Galton". The Independent. 12 February 2007. Retrieved 17 June 2017.
  2. "David Galton". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 17 June 2017.
  3. Daphne Christie; Tilli Tansey, eds. (2003). Leukaemia. Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine. History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group. ISBN 978-0-85484-087-8. Wikidata Q29581665.
  4. "No. 50551". The London Gazette (Supplement). 13 June 1986. pp. 1–26.


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