Professor George Dick
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Pathologist and virologist George Dick studied at Edinburgh University School of Medicine. Following service in the RAMC during the second world war, he undertook viral research in Uganda, the UK and the US, and then took up the Chair of Bacteriology at Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland. He was influential in a number of areas, including persuading the UK government to abandon the routine vaccination of children against smallpox and preventing the import of a dangerous vaccine against multiple sclerosis from the Soviet Union.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1997
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That's not a bed. It's my office
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Novelist AN Wilson tells of writing his first six or seven novels and some non-fiction in bed. The links between writing in bed and his productivity are analyzed, and the different sorts of bed in which he has slept are discussed. The suitability of various kinds of bed for different types of room is considered, and the happiness of family life focused on the bed is recounted. The negative aspects of extremely large beds are also discussed.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1998
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