| Administrative History | Sir [Professor] William Drummond M. Paton (1917 - 1993) was professor of Pharmacology at Oxford University between 1959 and 1984. He worked at the National Institute of Medical Research between 1944 and 1952.
'His early physiological research was on diving problems, including decompression sickness and the escape from submarines by free ascent'. Paton moved to UCH [possibly University of Colorado Hospital or University Community Health] in 1952 and was reader in applied pharmacology. 'His teaching ... attempted to bridge the gap between basic preclinical pharmacology and therapeutics, and his research was on histamine distribution and, with John Thompson, on porphobilinogen'. Paton was the 'first Vandervell professor of pharmacology at the Royal College of Surgeons'.
Cited from web page of The Medical Sciences Video Archive of the Royal College of Physicians and Oxford Brookes University, 'Sir William Paton CBE FRS (1917 - 1993)', http://www.brookes.ac.uk/schools/bms/medical/synopses/paton.html! (2005). |