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THE increasing importance attached to the scientific study of nutrition is reflected in the appointment of Dr. B. S. Platt as professor of human nutrition at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Dr. Platt will continue to hold, in conjunction with the chair, his present post as director of the Medical Research Council's Research Unit of Human Nutrition, at the National Hospital, Queen Square, London. His appointment is thus also another welcome sign of the growing readiness of universities to elect to professorial rank those whose duties are primarily in research ; under the old system a professor was too often so fully occupied with teaching as to have little time left for research. Dr. Platt graduated in the School of Chemistry at Leeds in 1923. He engaged in research there under the late Prof. J. B. Cohen, was elected to a Beit Memorial Fellowship in 1926, and became medically qualified in 1930. During 1932-38 he was attached to the Division of Clinical Research of the Henry Lester Institute of Medical Research at Shanghai, as associate in medicine, and in 1932 was the author of the B. M. A. “Bishop Harman Prize Essay” on “The Importance of Vitamin B1 for Maternal Health in Pregnancy and Lactation”. In 1938 he was appointed to the scientific staff of the Medical Research Council, and since 1944 has been director1 of the Council's Human Nutrition Research Unit.
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Human Nutrition at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine : Prof. B. S. Platt, C. M. G. Nature 159, 122 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/159122d0
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