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词条 Ralph Hudson Johnson
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  1. Life

  2. Publications

  3. Family

  4. References

Prof Ralph Hudson Johnson FRSE (3 December 1933 – 1 July 1993) was a 20th-century British neurologist. Working especially with the disabled he was influential in the extension of the use of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act (1970) into Scotland.

Life

He was born on 3 December 1933 in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear the son of Sydney Reynald Edward Johnson, an electrical engineer, and his wife, Phyllis. He attended Lawrence Sheriff School and then won a scholarship to Rugby School. A distinguished scholar he won a double scholarship and obtained multiple degrees at both Cambridge and Oxford. He completed his training at University College Hospital Medical School in London, in 1958. In 1960 he moved to the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford. Here he did valuable research on artificial respiration for poliomyelitis and rehabilitation of paraplegics, winning awards from the Polio Research Fund, British Medical Association and the Schorstein Medical Research Fellowship of Oxford University.[1]

His global research reached from Ecuador to the Atlas Mountains and Israel.[2]

He was awarded multiple doctorates and honorary doctorates throughout his career. In 1976 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were John A Simpson, Robert Martin Stuart Smellie, Henry G Morgan, and Reginald Passmore.[3]

In 1977, he went to the newly created Wellington Clinical School of Medicine in New Zealand as its first dean. Mixing research with organisational skills he created a new Diploma in Community Health in 1981. In 1987 he returned to Britain, taking up a Fellowship at Wadham College, Oxford.

A keen apiarist he was ironically died of anaphylactic shock having been stung by a swarm of his own bees in his garden in Oxford on 1 July 1993.

Publications

  • Disorders of the Automatic Nervous System (1974) with J M K Spalding
  • Multiple Sclerosis in Scotland (1978)
  • Neurocardiology (1985) with Lambie and Spalding

Family

In 1970, he married Gillian S Keith, a social worker. They had two children.

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.rse.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/obits_alpha/johnson_ralph.pdf |format=PDF |title=RALPH HUDSON JOHNSON Biography |website=Rse.org.uk |accessdate=2017-01-21}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/2442 |title=Munks Roll Details for Ralph Hudson Johnson |website=Munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk |date= |accessdate=2017-01-21}}
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}}
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