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    James Learmonth Gowans

    Sir James Learmonth "Jim" Gowans CBE FRS FRCP (7 May


    1924 – 1 April 2020[1]) was a British physician and immunologist.
    In 1945, while studying medicine at King's College Hospital, he
    assisted at the liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camp as a
    voluntary medical student.[2]

    Gowans was born in Sheffield, England. He graduated in medicine


    in 1947 from King's College Hospital, then in 1948 obtained a
    degree in physiology at Oxford, followed by a Ph.D. with Howard Group photo of London Medical
    students who went to Belsen
    Florey at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology at Oxford on
    lymphocytes. He then became a professor of experimental
    pathology at Oxford. In 1977, he left his research career for ten years to be secretary of the Medical
    Research Council. He served as Secretary-General of the Human Frontier Science Program in 1989. He
    was a colleague and life-long friend of George Bellamy Mackaness.[3]

    He made significant discoveries about the role of lymphocytes in the immune response. In particular, he
    showed that some lymphocytes were not short-lived, as previously assumed, but moved from the blood
    into the lymphatic system and back. On the initiative of Peter Medawar he also undertook experiments on
    rats that showed that lymphocytes play an important role in transplant rejection.

    In 1963, Gowans became a Fellow of the Royal Society. He was appointed a Commander of the Order of
    the British Empire in the 1971 New Year Honours for services to medical science and a Knight Bachelor
    in the 1982 New Year Honours.[4][5]

    In 1980, he was awarded the Wolf Prize in Medicine. He was a foreign member of the National Academy
    of Sciences and a SSI Honorary Member (1971),[6] and received several honorary doctorates. In 1968 he
    received the Gairdner Foundation International Award and in 1990 shared the first Medawar Prize with
    Jacques Miller. In 1974, he was awarded the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize. He won the
    Royal Medal in 1976.[7]

    Family
    In 1956, he married Moira Leatham, with whom he had a son and two daughters.

    See also
    List of London medical students who assisted at Belsen

    References
    Brent, Leslie (1997). A history of Transplantation Immunology (https://books.google.com/boo
    ks?id=NCvzkdkAoe8C&pg=PA116). Academic Press. pp. 116–117. ISBN 9780080533995.
    1. Gowans (http://epaper.thetimes.co.uk/epaper/viewer.aspx)
    2. "Archive of Sir James Gowans" (http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/online/mode
    rn/gowans-james/gowans-james.html). bodley.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
    3. Carter, P. B. (2014). "George Bellamy Mackaness. 20 August 1922 — 4 March 2007" (http
    s://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsbm.2014.0017). Biographical Memoirs of
    Fellows of the Royal Society. 60: 294. doi:10.1098/RSBM.2014.0017 (https://doi.org/10.109
    8%2FRSBM.2014.0017). S2CID 71237348 (https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:71237
    348).
    4. "No. 45262" (https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/45262/supplement/8). The London
    Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 1970. p. 8.
    5. "No. 48837" (https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/48837/page/1). The London
    Gazette. 30 December 1981. p. 1.
    6. "Honorary Members" (https://web.archive.org/web/20171010210724/http://www.scandinavia
    nimmunology.nu/Honorary-Members.html). Archived from the original (http://www.scandinavi
    animmunology.nu/Honorary-Members.html) on 10 October 2017. Retrieved 13 October
    2017.
    7. "Royal Medal" (http://www.nndb.com/honors/968/000100668/). Retrieved 6 December 2008.

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