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Gairdner is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alice Elizabeth Gairdner (1873–1954), British plant scientist, geneticist and cytologist * Bill Gairdner (1940–2024), Canadian track and field athlete * Douglas Gairdner (1910–1992), Scottish pediatrician, research scientist, academic and author * Charles Gairdner (1898–1983), British Governor of Western Australia and Tasmania * James Gairdner (1828–1912), British historian * John Gairdner (1790–1876), Scottish politician * Scott Gairdner (born 1985), American comedy writer, director and podcast * William Gairdner (other) William Gairdner may refer to: * William Gairdner (physician) (1793–1867), physician * William Tennant Gairdner (1824–1907), physician * William Henry Temple Gairdner (1873–1928), missionary * Bill Gairdner (born 1940), athlete See also * G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Elizabeth Gairdner
Alice Elizabeth Gairdner (1873–1954) was a British plant scientist, geneticist and cytologist. Life In the 1910s, Gairdner was associated with the Plant Breeding Institute in Cambridge and became one of William Bateson's Mendelian followers. In Cambridge she studied Tropaeolum (Nasturtium) and this work interested Bateson – he had numerous drawings and figures of Tropaeolum by Gairdner in his collection. Gairdner joined the John Innes Horticultural Institution (now the John Innes Centre) in 1919 as a student, joining the so-called 'Ladies Lab' along with Caroline Pellew, Dorothea De Winton, Dorothy Cayley, Aslaug Sverdrup and Irma Andersson-Kottö. Gairdner investigated male sterility in flax, initially with Bateson, and continued the work after his death. In papers published in 1921 and 1929, they proposed that nuclear-cytoplasmic interactions may be causing the male sterility phenotype. Gairdner primarily worked with J. B. S. Haldane, who led the geneti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Gairdner
William Douglas Gairdner (October 19, 1940 – January 12, 2024) was a Canadian track and field athlete in the men's 400 m hurdles and the men's decathlon at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. He was awarded a silver medal in decathlon event at the 1963 Pan American Games in Brazil. Gairdner attended Appleby College in Oakville, and was a resident of Toronto. Following his hurdling career, he applied himself to the field of academia. He gained his first M.A. in 1967 (studying Structural Linguistics at Stanford University) and then earned a second one at the institution in 1969 in English Literature and Creative Writing Creative writing is any writing that goes beyond the boundaries of normal professional, journalistic, academic, or technical forms of literature, typically identified by an emphasis on craft and technique, such as narrative structure, character .... A year later he graduated with a Ph.D. in English Literature from Stanford. He was a published author ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douglas Gairdner
Douglas Montagu Temple Gairdner FRCP (19 November 1910 – 10 May 1992) was a Scottish paediatrician, research scientist, academic and author. Gairdner was principally known for a number of research studies in neonatology at a time when that subject was being developed as perhaps the most rewarding application of basic physiology to patient care, and later his most important contributions as editor, firstly editing ''Recent Advances in Paediatrics'', and then of ''Archives of Disease in Childhood'' for 15 years, turning the latter into an international journal of repute with its exemplary standards of content and presentation. Early life Gairdner, the son of William Henry Temple Gairdner, an Anglican missionary, and grandson of Sir William Tennant Gairdner, KCB, a medical doctor and professor, was born in Scotland on 19 November 1910. His mother was Mary Mitchell. He was the great-nephew of historian James Gairdner. Gairdner was named for his father's late friend, Douglas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Gairdner
Lieutenant General Sir Charles Henry Gairdner, (20 March 1898 – 22 February 1983) was a senior British Army officer who later occupied two viceregal positions in Australia. Born in Batavia (now Jakarta) in the Dutch East Indies, he was brought up in Ireland, and educated at Repton School and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, in England. Having served on active duty during the First World War, in which he sustained a serious wound to his right leg, Gairdner spent time at the Staff College, Camberley in the interwar period, and served as commanding officer of the 10th Royal Hussars, 6th Armoured Division and 8th Armoured Division during the Second World War. He retired from the army in 1949 and was appointed Governor of Western Australia in 1951, a position in which he served until 1963, when he assumed the role of Governor of Tasmania until 1968. Gairdner died in Nedlands, at the age of 84, and was awarded a state funeral.Boyce, P'Gairdner, Sir Charles Henry (1898–1983 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Gairdner
James Gairdner (22 March 1828 – 4 November 1912) was a British historian. He specialised in 15th-century and early Tudor history, and among other tasks edited the '' Letters and Papers of the Reign of Henry VIII'' series. Son of John Gairdner, M.D. and brother of Sir William Tennant Gairdner, he was born and educated in Edinburgh. He entered the Public Record Office in London in 1846, remaining at work there until his retirement over fifty years later in 1900. Gairdner's contributions to English history related chiefly to the reigns of Richard III, Henry VII and Henry VIII. For the Rolls Series he edited ''Letters and Papers illustrative of the Reigns of Richard III and Henry VII'' (London, 1861–1863), and ''Memorials of Henry VII'' (London, 1858). In association with J. S. Brewer, Gairdner prepared the first four volumes (in nine parts) of the ''Calendar of Letters and Papers of the Reign of Henry VIII'', and, after Brewer's death in 1879, Gairdner completed the serie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Gairdner
Dr John Gairdner FRCS (18 September 1790 – 12 December 1876) was a Scottish physician. Life He was the eldest son of Captain Robert Gairdner of the Bengal artillery, and brother of William Gairdner (physician), William Gairdner, born at Mount Charles, near Ayr, on 18 September 1790. When he was five years old his father was killed by the kick of a horse. He received his school education at Ayr Academy, and after he moved with his family to Edinburgh in 1808, studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, receiving his Doctor of Medicine, MD in 1811. He spent the winter of 1812 in London, studying anatomy under Charles Bell. In 1813 Gairdner went into practice in Edinburgh in partnership with Dr Farquharson. In the same year he became a fellow of the College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, and four years later began to act as examiner for the College. For many years he was the College's treasurer, and later he was president from 1830 to 1832. This appointment gave him a seat in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
