Daniel Fowler Cappell

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LLD (28 February 1900 – 13 February 1976) was a leading Scottish physician and pathologist. He was a leading academic and also acted as pathologist to several prominent Scottish hospitals.

Life

He was born in Hillhead, Glasgow, on 28 February 1900, the son of Robert Cappell, a pharmacist, and his wife Annabella Fowler. His early education was at Hillhead High School and Glasgow Academy, where he was dux. He studied medicine and pathology at

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, graduating in 1921. He continued at the university as an assistant in the Pathology Department and was awarded a MD in 1929. He became a lecturer in 1928 and in 1931 received a professorship at

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. In 1945 he returned to

as professor of pathology and continued there until 1967. In 1958, he was awarded a

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. St Andrews University awarded him an honorary doctorate (LLD) in 1966. He retired to

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in Aberdeenshire. Fowler Cappell died in Stracathro Hospital near

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on 13 February 1976.

Family

In 1927 he married Isabella Audrey Griffin. They had no children.

Publications

*''The Blood Group Rhesus'' (1946)

Positions held

*Fellow of the

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(1946) *Member of the British Society of Haematology *Member of the Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland

References

1900 births 1976 deaths Scottish pathologists Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh {{Scotland-scientist-stub