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IN April 1939 Dr. S. Zuckerman was appointed to the chair of anatomy in the University of Birmingham, and plans were immediately discussed for the establishment in the Department of Anatomy of an experimental unit in order to allow the new professor . to continue and develop the programme of work on which he has been engaged for some years. Unfortunately, the War has interrupted these discussions, and the plans have necessarily been shelved for the moment. In View of this, and also because Dr. Zuckerman is engaged in war work elsewhere, he has had to postpone the assumption of his appointment at Birmingham until more propitious times. Meanwhile Dr. C. F. V. Smout is the acting head of the Department of Anatomy at Birmingham. Dr. Zuckerman entered on his academic career as a medical student of the University of Cape Town. After spending two years there as a demonstrator of anatomy he came to London as a Union Research Fellow, and qualified in medicine from University College in 1928. During 1928-32 he was research anatomist of the Zoological Society of London. During 1933-34 he worked in the United States, first as a research associate in the Primate Laboratories at Yale and afterwards as a Rockefeller Fellow. On his return to England he joined Prof. Le Gros Clark at the University of Oxford as a Beit Fellow and Departmental demonstrator. Later he was appointed University demonstrator and Nuffield research worker in endocrinology, and he continues to hold these appointments for the present. While at Oxford Dr. Zuckerman has played an important part in the development of research laboratories of a modern type in the Department of Human Anatomy.
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Dr. S. Zuckerman. Nature 145, 582 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145582b0
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