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Bruce Chown

Date of Birth 10-October-1893
Place of Birth Winnipeg
(Canada, Manitoba, Winnipeg Capital Region, Area code 204, Area code 431, Area codes 204 and 431)
Nationality Canada
Also know as Dr. Bruce Chown
Profession Physician
Bruce Chown, OC FRSC was a Canadian scientist who researched the blood factor known as the Rhesus factor and helped produced a Rh immune vaccine, Rh gamma globulin, which helps to prevent Erythroblastosis fetalis. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, the son of Henry Havelock and Katherine Chown, he received a B.A. from McGill University in 1914. During World War I, he served in the Canadian Field Artillery and received the Military Cross. After the war, he received his medical degree from the University of Manitoba in 1922. He completed his postgraduate work in pediatrics at Babies' Hospital, Columbia University; Harriet Lane Home, Johns Hopkins University; and Nursery and Child's Hospital, Cornell University becoming one of only a few trained pediatricians in Canada and the only one in Manitoba. From 1926 to 1977, he was on the staff of the University of Manitoba. From 1944 to 1977, he was the Director of the Rh Laboratory in Winnipeg. In 1967, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 1968, he received the Gairdner Foundation International Award. In 1970, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In 1995, he was inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame.

Awards by Bruce Chown

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1968


Gairdner Foundation International Award
(For his valuable contributions to the knowledge of human blood groups and particularly for his work on the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of hemolytic disease of the new­born, and for his leadership and inspiration of investigators concerned with clinical immunohematology.)