Born, G. V. R. (Gustav Victor Rudolf), 1921-2018

LC control no.	n 82042265
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Born, G. V. R. (Gustav Victor Rudolf), 1921-2018 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Born, Gustav V. R. Born, Gustav R. V., 1921-2018 Born, Gustav Victor Rudolf, 1921-2018
Located	Great Britain
Birth date	1921-07-29
Death date	2018-04-16
Place of birth	Göttingen (Germany)
Place of death	Great Britain
Field of activity	Pharmacology Hematology
Profession or occupation	Medical scientists
Found in	White blood cells, 1982 (a.e.) CIP t.p. (G.V.R. Born, Dept. of Pharmacology, Univ. of London) Factors in formation and regress of the atherosclerotic plaque, c1982: CIP t.p. (Gustav R. V. Born) WW, 1983 (Born, Gustav Victor Rudolf; b. 7/29/21) NLM files, 9-17-87 (hdg.: Born, Gustav V.R.; usage: Gustav R. V. Born, G.V.R. Born) Washington post WWW site, viewed May 8, 2018 (Gustav Born, an accomplished medical researcher, died April 16 [2018] in Britain, where he lived; he was 96; graduated from medical school at the University of Edinburgh while still in his teens; as a member of the Royal Army Medical Corps, Dr. Born was among the first allied medical personnel to witness the health consequences of the atomic bomb dropped by the United States on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945; the bleeding disorders that he saw in Japan steered him toward medical research that he followed throughout his career; he made several important discoveries about blood flow and clotting, with applications to heart disease; Gustav Victor Rudolf Born was born July 29, 1921, in Göttingen; received a second doctorate, from the University of Oxford, in 1951; lecturer at Oxford before serving as a professor of pharmacology at the Royal College of Surgeons in London from 1960 to 1973; later held prominent academic chairs in pharmacology at the University of Cambridge and King's College London; in the late 1980s, he helped found the William Harvey Research Institute in London)
Associated language	eng