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Creator:
King, Edgar Samuel John
Date of birth: 1900
Date of death: 1966
Biography: E.S.J. King, a medical graduate of this University and later F.R.C.S. and D.Sc., was Surgeon Outpatients and Clinical Tutor in Surgery at the Melbourne Hospital from 1931, Stewart Lecturer in Pathology at the University of Melbourne 1928-1932, Senior Lecturer from 1932 and, in 1934, Acting Professor. He won the Jacksonian Prize of the Royal College of Surgeons on three occasions (1930, 1933 and 1938) and other distinctions. In 1951 he followed Sir Peter MacCallum as Professor of Pathology, a post he held until his death in 1966.
Activities/Occupation: Academics - Pathology
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