John Vivian Dacie

John Vivian Dacie
Born	20 July 1912
Died	12 February 2005 (aged 92)
Institutions	King's College Hospital
Notable awards	Fellow of the Royal Society (1967)

Sir John Vivian Dacie, FRS (20 July 1912 Putney, London – 12 February 2005)^[1] was a British haematologist.^[2][3]

Education

He was born in Putney, London and educated at King's College School, Wimbledon, after which he studied medicine at Kings College Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1936.

Career

He had house jobs at King's College Hospital, the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, London University, Hammersmith and a research post at Manchester Royal Infirmary. During WWII (1943–1946) he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps, ending up a lieutenant colonel. After the war he was a Senior Lecturer and then in 1956 Professor at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School.^[4] He founded the Leukaemia Research Fund, Great Ormond Street, London (1960). His main achievements concerned the Hemolytic anemias, a field in which he was a world leader. He discovered and named Christmas disease, more commonly referred to as haemophilia B, a deficiency of coagulation Factor IX.

Sir Dacie is credited with characterizing the relationship between paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria and bone marrow failure syndromes like aplastic anemia.^[5]

He was founder of the Leukaemia Research Unit, Hammersmith Hospital (1969) and founder and editor of the British Journal of Haematology. He was elected President of the Royal College of Pathologists (1973–1975) and the Royal Society of Medicine (1977).^[6]

He had a lifelong interest in lepidoptera.

He was knighted in 1976 and retired in 1977.

Family

He had married Margaret Thynne in 1938.

Works

• Practical Haematology. Churchill, 1950

References

1. Lewis, M.; Mollison, P.; Weatherall, D. (2006). "Sir John Vivian Dacie. 20 July 1912 -- 12 February 2005: Elected FRS 1967". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 52: 67–82. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2006.0006. PMID 18543470.
2. "Professor Sir John Dacie", The Independent, 26 February 2005
3. "Sir John Dacie", The Guardian, Caroline Richmond, 11 March 2005
4. "Professor Sir John Dacie", The Telegraph, 19 February 2005
5. Parker, C. J. (2002). "Historical aspects of paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria: 'defining the disease'". British journal of haematology 117 (1): 3–22. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2141.2002.03374.x. PMID 11918528.
6. Wright, P. (2005). "Sir John Vivian Dacie". The Lancet 365 (9468): 1382. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(05)66362-3.