Английская Википедия:Douglas Harold Copp

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Шаблон:Infobox scientist Douglas Harold Copp Шаблон:Post-nominals (January 16, 1915 – March 17, 1998) was a Canadian scientist who discovered and named the hormone calcitonin, which is used in the treatment of bone disease.[1]

Born in Toronto, Ontario, he received his MD from the University of Toronto in 1939 and his PhD in biochemistry from the University of California at Berkeley in 1943. In 1950 he became the first head of the physiology department in the newly established Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia.[2]

In 1967 he received the Gardner International Award jointly with the British endocrinologist Iain Macintyre who had sequenced calcitonin and showed it originated in the thyroid gland.[3] He was a Fellow of both the Royal Society (elected 1971) and the Royal Society of Canada.

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Шаблон:Canadian honour Шаблон:Canadian Medical Hall of Fame Шаблон:Authority control