Wesselow Simpkinson de

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Biografie:
Owen Lambert Vaughan - Simpkinson de Wesselow (1883-1959)
Professor de Wesselow, Emeritus Professor of Medicine in the University of London and Consulting Physician to St. Thomas's Hospital, died on July 7, having been a member of the Alpine Club for forty-five years.
He was educated at Haileybury and Corpus Christi, Oxford, graduating with First Class Honours in Natural Science in 1905. He entered St. Thomas's Hospital and qualified as M.B. in 1908, obtaining his M.R.C.P., London in 1912. After post-graduate study in Paris, he commenced research work at the Lister Institute, but his career was interrupted in 1914 by the War. He joined the R.A.M.C. and served in France with the Worcester Regt., being wounded and mentioned in despatches.
Later, at Etaples, he made special investigations into trench fever and nephritis and by the end of the War he had established his reputation as a biochemist. He returned to St. Thomas's, with which the remainder of his career was largely associated. He was Croonian lecturer at the Royal College of Physicians in 1934 and for many years Editor of the Quarterly Journal of Medicine.
He was a pioneer, and a brilliant one, in clinical biochemistry, belonging to the era of personal research before the days of big departments with many assistants and technicians. In the wards he was a very good teacher, simple, kindly, with a pleasantly dry vein of humour. His interests outside his work were many ; he was a keen entomologist ; no less keen on military history ; interested in archaeology and especially in the preservation of ancient buildings ; he collected first editions and old silver ; and was an expert gardener.
He visited the Alps for the first time in 1903, but it was not until 1907 that he began to go to Switzerland regularly. His climbs included the usual run of standard routes round Zermatt and Arolla and in the Oberland and Dauphine ; he was, outside his scientific field, very conservative in his outlook and this was reflected in his climbing. His interest in mountaineering, however, never flagged; mentally, and physically, he was robust to the very end.
T. s. Blakeney
Quelle: Alpine Journal Vol. 64. Nr. 298, 1959, Seite 296


Geboren am:
1883
Gestorben am:
1959