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词条 William MacGregor Henderson
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  1. Life

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Sir William MacGregor Henderson FRS[1] FRSE PZS MRCVS (17 July 1913 – 29 November 2000) was a Scottish veterinary expert on foot and mouth disease. He was also President of the Zoological Society of London, 1984–1989.[2] He was in charge of controlling foot and mouth disease in South America from 1957 to 1966. In his life he was generally called Gregor Henderson.

Life

Henderson was born in Edinburgh the son of William Simpson Henderson and his wife, Catherine Alice Marcus Berry.[3] His father was managing director of the company which printed bank-notes for the Royal Bank of Scotland.[4] They lived at 123 Dalkeith Road in the south of the city.[5] He was educated at George Watson's College in Edinburgh.

He studied at the Royal (Dick) Veterinary College in Edinburgh. During his career at the Animal Virus Research Institute at Pirbright, which he joined in 1939, Henderson developed an improved foot and mouth vaccine and developed a method of determining the virus content in a sample of infected material, which became known as the Henderson Method. Henderson remained at Pirbright until 1956.[6]

From 1972 to 1978 he was Secretary of the Agricultural Research Council. He was knighted in 1976.

Henderson was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1976[2] and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1977. His proposers for the latter were Sir William Weipers, Sir John N Ritchie, Sir Alexander Robertson, and Robert Comline.[7]

Following retirement he became the Director of London Zoo.[8]

Family

In 1941 he married Alys Beryl Goodridge.

They had four sons.

References

1. ^{{Cite journal | last1 = Boden | first1 = E. | doi = 10.1098/rsbm.2004.0010 | title = Sir William Macgregor Henderson. 17 July 1913 – 29 November 2000: Elected F.R.S. 1976 | journal = Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society | volume = 50 | pages = 133–146 | year = 2004 | pmid = 15754472| pmc = }}
2. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/dec/19/guardianobituaries2|title=Obituary - Sir William Henderson - His researches checked the scourge of foot and mouth disease|date=19 December 2000|accessdate=25 May 2011|work=The Guardian|author=Walter Plowright}}
3. ^{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0 902 198 84 X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf}}
4. ^Telegraph (newspaper) obituary 9 December 2000
5. ^Edinburgh and Leith Directory 1911-12
6. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1377574/Sir-William-Henderson.html|title=Obituary Sir William Henderson|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=9 December 2000|accessdate=25 May 2011}}
7. ^{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0 902 198 84 X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf}}
8. ^The Guardian (newspaper) obituary 19 December 2000
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