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词条 Peter Harper (geneticist)
释义

  1. Work

  2. Honours and awards

  3. Personal life

  4. Books

  5. References

  6. External links

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|birth_name = Peter Stanley Harper
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|fields = Neurogenetics
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|known_for = Work on muscular dystrophy and Huntington's disease
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|work_institutions = Cardiff University
University of Wales College of Medicine
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Sir Peter Stanley Harper {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CBE|FLS|FRCP}} (born 28 April 1939) is a British physician and academic who is University Research Professor (Emeritus) in Human Genetics at Cardiff University. His work has focused on researching neurogenetics and has resulted in important discoveries concerning muscular dystrophies and Huntington's disease. He was knighted in 2004 for services to medicine.

Work

Until 2004, Sir Peter was Professor of Medical Genetics at the University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff. He helped to develop the Wales Medical Genetics Service and has been a member of the UK Human Genetics Commission and Advisory Committee on Genetic testing. He was a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics 2004-2010. As a consultant to the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group, he has contributed to several oral histories which address recent developments in clinical genetics in the UK.[2][3][4]

Honours and awards

He delivered the Lumleian Lecture to the Royal College of Physicians in 1995. He was appointed a Commanders of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1996 for services to Medical Genetics and was knighted in the 2004 Birthday Honours, for services to Medicine.[5]

Personal life

Sir Peter married Elaine, a district nurse, and the couple have five children.

Books

  • Practical Genetic Counselling, 1998 Hodder Arnold
  • Myotonic Dystrophy: The Facts, 2002
  • Landmarks in Medical Genetics, 2004 OUP
  • First Years of Human Chromosomes, 2006 Scion Press
  • A Short History of Medical Genetics, 2008. OUP

References

1. ^{{cite web |title=Peter Stanley Harper |url=https://prabook.com/web/peter_stanley.harper/162362 |website=World Biographical Encyclopedia |accessdate=5 April 2019 |language=en-EN}}
2. ^{{cite book|title=Clinical genetics in Britain: origins and development : the transcript of a Witness Seminar held by the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, London, on 23 September 2008|date=2010|publisher=Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL|location=London|isbn=9780854841271|edition=Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine, vol. 39|editor=Harper P S, Reynolds L A and Tansey E M|title-link=Witness seminar}}
3. ^{{cite book|title=Clinical Cancer Genetics: Polyposis and familial colorectal cancer c.1975-c.2010|date=2013|publisher=Queen Mary, University of London|location=UK|edition=Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine, vol. 46.|editor=Jones E M and Tansey E M}}
4. ^{{cite book|title=Clinical Molecular Genetics in the UK c. 1975-c.2000|date=2014|publisher=Queen Mary, University of London|location=UK|edition=Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine, vol. 48|editor=Jones E M and Tansey E M}}
5. ^{{cite web |title=Prof. Peter Stanley Harper archive |url=https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/special-collections/explore/collection/prof.-peter-stanley-harper |publisher=Cardiff University |accessdate=5 April 2019 |language=en}}

External links

  • [https://genmedhist.eshg.org/ Genetics and Medicine Historical Network]
  • Peter Harper's personal archive and library are held at Special Collections and Archives, Cardiff University.
  • {{History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group ID}}
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9 : 1939 births|Living people|People from Barnstaple|20th-century English medical doctors|Commanders of the Order of the British Empire|Knights Bachelor|Muscular dystrophy|Fellows of the Linnean Society of London|Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians

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