John Vivian Dacie
John Vivian Dacie | |
|---|---|
| Born | 20 July 1912 Putney, London, England |
| Died | 12 February 2005 (aged 92) |
| Awards | Fellow of the Royal Society (1967) |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | King's College Hospital |
Sir John Vivian Dacie, FRS (20 July 1912 – 12 February 2005) was a British haematologist.
Early life
Dacie was born in Putney, London, England on 20 July 1912.[1][2][3] His father was an accountant.[4]
Dacie was educated at King's College School, Wimbledon.[3][1] He studied medicine at King's College Hospital Medical School, graduating in 1935 and qualifying in 1936.[3][1][4]
Career
Dacie had house jobs at King's College Hospital, the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, London University, Hammersmith and a research post at Manchester Royal Infirmary. During World War II from 1943 to 1946, he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps, ending up a lieutenant colonel.[4] After the war he was a senior lecturer and, then, in 1956 professor at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School.[5]
He founded the Leukaemia Research Fund in 1960.[4] His main achievements concerned the Hemolytic anemias, a field in which he was a world leader.[2] He discovered and named Christmas disease, more commonly referred to as haemophilia B, a deficiency of coagulation Factor IX.[4][6]
Dacie is credited with characterizing the relationship between paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria and bone marrow failure syndromes like aplastic anemia.[7] He was founder of the Leukaemia Research Unit at Hammersmith Hospital in 1969. He was the founding editor of the British Journal of Haematology.[4] He was president of the Royal College of Pathologists from 1973 to 1975 and the Royal Society of Medicine in 1977.[3][4]
He had a lifelong interest in lepidoptera. He was knighted in 1976 and retired in 1977.[2]
Personal life
Dacie married Margaret Thynne in 1938.[4] They had two daughters and three sons.[2] He died on 12 February 2005 at the age of 92.[2][4]
Selected works
- Practical Haematology. Churchill, 1950; 10th edition (2006), LCCN 2005-53767 ISBN 0443066604 (pbk.)
- Haemolytic Anemias. Churchill, 1954; 2nd edition, Part I (1960), Part II (1962); 3rd edition, 3 volumes (1988–1992) LCCN 84-5849
References
- ^ a b c "Professor Sir John Dacie", The Independent, 26 February 2005
- ^ a b c d e Lewis, M.; Mollison, P.; Weatherall, D. (2006). "Sir John Vivian Dacie. 20 July 1912 -- 12 February 2005: Elected FRS 1967". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 52: 67–82. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2006.0006. PMID 18543470.
- ^ a b c d Wright, P. (2005). "Sir John Vivian Dacie". The Lancet. 365 (9468): 1382. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(05)66362-3. PMID 15864858. S2CID 34316887.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Sir John Dacie", The Guardian, Caroline Richmond, 11 March 2005
- ^ "Professor Sir John Dacie", The Telegraph, 19 February 2005.
- ^ Kopplin, Peter (2020). "From eponym to advocate The story of Stephen Christmas". Hektoen International.
- ^ Parker, C. J. (2002). "Historical aspects of paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria: 'defining the disease'". British Journal of Haematology. 117 (1): 3–22. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2141.2002.03374.x. PMID 11918528.