Heppleston, Professor Alfred Gordon

The following is an interim description which may change when detailed cataloguing takes place in future:

Curriculum Vitae

Correspondence with Professor Wiliam Boyd, Toronto, 1962

Correspondence relating to eminent figures in pulmonary pathology, 1950 onwards

Typed copy and additional notes of inaugural lecture, University of Durham: "Dead or Alive", 1961

Printed copy of application for the Chair of Pathology, University of Durham, 1961

List of publications

Typed and bound copy of thesis presented for the degree of Doctor of Medicine, University of Manchester: "The Pathogenesis of Pneumokoniosis in Coal-Workers", 1954

Typed and bound copy of Report to the Medical Research Council: "Quantative Airbourne Tuberculosis in the Rabbit"; "The nature of Constitutional Resistance to Experimental Tuberculosis"; "The Pathology of Pneumokniosis in American Coal Workers", 1947-1948

1947-1995

Uncatalogued: 1 archive box

Given to the Library by Dr Heppleston's son, 1998.

Alfred Gordon Heppleston studied at the University of Manchester before going on to work as Professor of Pathology at the Welsh National School of Medicine in Cardiff, and the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne. In 1947 he took a year out to work as a research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania.

A Fellow of both the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of Pathologists, he had a lifelong interest in pulmonary silicotic conditions, and published widely on this topic. He continued to research and publish after his retirement, holding an honorary position at the Institute of Occupational Medicine in Edinburgh.

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