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词条 Stewart Duke-Elder
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  1. Life

  2. Publications

  3. References

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{{Use British English|date=January 2015}}{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2015}}Sir William Stewart Duke-Elder {{postnominals|country=GBR|GCVO|FRS|FRCP|FRCS}} (22 April 1898 – 27 March 1978), a Scottish ophthalmologist who was a dominant force in his field for more than a quarter of a century.[1]

Life

He was born in the manse in Tealing near Dundee. His father, Rev Neil Stewart Elder, was the village minister of the Free Church of Scotland. His mother was Isabelle Duke, daughter of Rev John Duke of the Free Church in Campsie, Stirlingshire. He was educated at Morgan Academy in Dundee, and was school dux for 1914–1915.[2]

He entered the University of St Andrews in 1915 on scholarship, and graduated in 1919 with a BSc in Physiology and MA (Hons) in Natural Sciences. He graduated from the University of St Andrews School of Medicine in 1923 with an MB ChB. In 1925, he earned an MD from St Andrews for his dissertation on 'Reaction of the eye to changes in osmotic pressure of the blood'.

In 1927, he earned a DSc from St Andrews for his thesis on "The nature of the intraocular fluids and the pressure equilibrium in the eye". He is best remembered as a talented and prolific writer and editor, producing seven volumes of Textbook of Ophthalmology and fifteen volumes of System of Ophthalmology, along with many other textbooks and scientific papers that provided the educational foundation for most of the world's ophthalmologists. This monumental contribution to medical literature earned him the title of Fellow of the Royal Society in 1960.[1]

In addition to his own writings, Duke-Elder served for many years as editor and chairman of the editorial committee of the British Journal of Ophthalmology and Ophthalmic Literature and he was instrumental in the formation and research direction of the Institute of Ophthalmology, now part of the University College London. He was knighted in 1933, and subsequently earned many more honours, serving as the Surgeon-Oculist to King Edward VIII, George VI and Queen Elizabeth II. In 1946 he formed the Faculty of Ophthalmologists.

He was awarded the 1957 Lister Medal for his contributions to surgical science.[3] The corresponding Lister Oration, given at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, was delivered on 28 March 1958, and was titled 'The Emergence of Vision in the Animal World'.[4]

He had a long and successful marriage to his wife Phyllis, who had been his medical assistant. They had no children.[5] He died at his home at St John's Wood in London on 27 March 1978.

Publications

  • Textbook of Ophthalmology (1954)
  • A Century of International Ophthalmology (1958)
  • Neuro-ophthalmology (1971)
  • Ocular Motility and Strabismus (1973)
  • System of Ophthalmology (multiple editions)

References

1. ^{{Cite journal|last1=Lyle|first1=T. K.|last2=Miller|first2=S.|last3=Ashton|first3=N. H.|authorlink3=N. H. Ashton|title=William Stewart Duke-Elder. 22 April 1898 – 27 March 1978|doi=10.1098/rsbm.1980.0003|journal=Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society|volume=26|pages=85|year=1980}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/1357|website=munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk|title=Munks Roll Details for William Stewart (Sir) Duke-Elder|accessdate=4 March 2018}}
3. ^{{cite journal|title=Lister Medal|journal=Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England|volume=19|issue=5|page=330|year=1956|pmid=19310079|pmc=2378048}}
4. ^{{Cite journal|last1=Duke-Elder|first1=S.|title=The Emergence of Vision in the Animal World: Lister Oration delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England on 28th March 1958|journal=Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England|volume=23|issue=1|pages=1–24|year=1958|pmid=13559944|pmc=2413660}}
5. ^{{cite web|url=http://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/biogs/E006445b.htm|title=Duke-Elder, Sir William Stewart – Biographical entry – Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online|website=livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk|accessdate=4 March 2018}}

External links

  • Obituary from The American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery
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