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BY common consent, Sir Robert Muir, professor of pathology in the University of Glasgow, is the leader of British pathology, as was shown by the enthusiasm with which his colleagues gathered together last year to testify to their respect and affection for him and to celebrate his seventieth birthday. The recent award to him of the Lister Medal is a proper recognition of the value of his work to surgeons as well as pathologists. This Medal is awarded triennially, irrespective of nationality, for distinguished contributions to surgical science; it consists of a bronze medal and a sum of £500. Sir Robert is an old-fashioned all-round pathologist, morbid anatomist and bacteriologist, and his own researches have covered a wide fieldâ anaemia, immunity, tumours, iron metabolism, etc. He has illuminated any subject to which he has been drawn to pay attention, and his comprehensive knowledge has been spread beyond his immediate pupils by two popular textbooks on pathology and bacteriology, the latter originally written in partnership with his friend James Ritchie, and by the number of his pupils who hold chairs and other positions of distinction in pathology in Britain and the Dominions, where they no doubt reproduce some of his teaching though they can scarcely duplicate his personality.
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Sir Robert Muir, F.R.S. Nature 135, 864 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135864b0
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