BARR’S The Human Nervous System

Аннотация

Murray Llewellyn Barr (1908 to 1995) obtained his medical degree in 1933 from the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, and after a few years in practice, he entered the Department of Anatomy at the same institution. He studied and taught neuroanatomy there until 1978. This period of service was interrupted by the Second World War, when he served in the Medical Branch of the Royal Canadian Air Force. In 1949, the direction of Barr’s research changed abruptly from neurohistology to cytogenetics. With Ewart G. (“Mike”) Bertram, who was then a graduate student, he had observed an intranuclear inclusion in neurons of female animals. This was the sex chromatin, now widely known as the Barr body; its discovery was an early landmark in the science of human cytogenetics. For this and his later work in the field, Murray Barr received more than 30 awards and honors, including the Kennedy Foundation International Award in Mental Retardation, Fellowship of the Royal Society of London, the Order of Canada, and 7 honorary doctorates.