Hugh Paterson Donald Explained

Hugh Paterson Donald (1908–1989)[1] was a New Zealand-born, British biologist, noteworthy as an important contributor to Peter Medawar's research on skin grafts.[2]

Hugh P. Donald was educated at Lincoln College in New Zealand, where he acquired three degrees and training as a plant geneticist.[3] At the beginning of his career he was interested in finding new varieties of wheat, but the plant geneticist Otto Frankel advised him that there were more job opportunities in agricultural research on animals. In 1934 Donald joined Edinburgh University's Institute of Animal Genetics. There for two years from 1934 to 1936 he did research under the supervision of Rowena Lamy on Drosophila genetics and completed his Ph.D. thesis in 1936.[1] According to the geneticist A. H. Sturtevant's A History of Genetics,[4] Francis Crew and Rowena Lamy gave in 1935 an explanation for why some specific mutations were autosomal in one fruit-fly species and sex-linked in a closely related fruit-fly species, and the explanation was confirmed in 1936 by Donald.[5] In 1936 he was appointed junior lecturer in animal husbandry and assistant to Alick Buchanan-Smith at the Institute of Animal Genetics, Shothead Farm, Balerno. There Donald ran both the farm and the breeding programme, did research and much of the manual farm work, and also taught undergraduates.[1]

As successor to Robert George White,[6] Donald held an appointment from 1951 to 1973 as Director of the Agricultural Research Council's Animal Breeding Research Organisation (ABRO).[7] He held an appointment from 1973 to 1989 as Honorary Professor at the University of Edinburgh.[1] He was the coauthor with I. Michael Lerner of Modern Developments in Animal Breeding.[8] [9]

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References

  1. Web site: The University of Edinburgh, Centre for Research Collections (CRC), Special Collections: Archival Resources, Catalogue. Donald Hugh Paterson 1908-1989 geneticist and director of Animal Breeding Research Organisation.
  2. Book: Hamilton, David. A History of Organ Transplantation: Ancient Legends to Modern Practice. 2012. University of Pittsburgh Press. 221–222. 978-0-8229-7784-1.
  3. Donald . H. . 1932 . Masters thesis . An investigation into the inheritance of certain characters in some wheat crosses in New Zealand, and into the relation between grain colour and grain quality, with an examination of the methods of testing for quality in wheat . Research@Lincoln, University of Canterbury . 10182/14361.
  4. Book: Sturtevant, A. H.. 1965. A History of Genetics. New York. Harper and Row.
  5. Web site: Marie, Jennifer. The Importance of Place: A History of Genetics in 1930s Britain (University College London, PhD Thesis in History and Philosophy of Science). University College London (discovery.ucl.ac.uk).
  6. Web site: Professor Robert George White, C.B.E. (1885–1976). June 2012. Towards Dolly: Edinburgh, Roslin and the Birth of Modern Genetics, Edinburgh University Library Centre for Research Collections.
  7. Web site: May 2012. ABRO — The Animal Breeding Research Organisation. Towards Dolly: Edinburgh, Roslin and the Birth of Modern Genetics, Edinburgh University Library Centre for Research Collections.
  8. Book: Isadore Michael Lerner. Hugh Paterson Donald. Modern Developments in Animal Breeding. 1966. Academic P.. 978-0-12-444350-1.
  9. Omtvedt. I. T.. Review of Modern Developments in Animal Breeding by I. Michael Lerner and H. P. Donald. The Quarterly Review of Biology. 42. 4. 1967. 539–539. 0033-5770. 10.1086/405535.
  10. Changes in Fellowship during Session 1936–1937. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 57. 2014. 503–503. 0370-1646. 10.1017/S0370164600014243.

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