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THE untimely death of George Lees Taylor at the age of forty-eight has robbed medicine and genetics of an able and industrious worker who had made notable contributions in this field. Born in 1897 at Ashton-under-Lyne, the son of Albert Taylor, he graduated in medicine at the University of Manchester in 1920 after a distinguished undergraduate career. After two years of resident hospital appointments, Taylor spent seven years in general practice, but in 1929, when the chance occurred to become John Lucas Walker Student with Prof. H. R. Dean at Cambridge, Taylor decided to abandon practice and to devote himself to teaching and research. During the next six years Taylor's work was chiefly serological, and he published a series of ten papers on precipitin reactions which established his reputation for painstaking and consistently sound work. During this time he was awarded the M.D. with commendation (Manchester) and the Ph.D. (Cambridge).
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CAPPELL, D. Dr. G. L. Taylor. Nature 155, 569 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155569a0
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