Geoffrey Austin Gresham (1 November 1924–24 July 2009) was a British pathologist and writer of ''A Colour Atlas of Forensic Pathology'', a seminal book on the subject.
He was educated at
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Gonville and Caius College, often referred to simply as Caius ( ), is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1348, it is the fourth-oldest of the University of Cambridge's 31 colleges and one of th ...
and
King's College London
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where he was awarded the
Jelf Medal.
[‘GRESHAM, Prof. (Geoffrey) Austin’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014]
Austin Gresham was emeritus professor of morbid anatomy and
histopathology
Histopathology (compound of three Greek words: ''histos'' "tissue", πάθος ''pathos'' "suffering", and -λογία '' -logia'' "study of") refers to the microscopic examination of tissue in order to study the manifestations of disease. Spe ...
at
Jesus College,
Cambridge
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.
His 1975 handbook, ''A Colour Atlas of Forensic Pathology'', was compiled for trainee pathologists and, according to the author, "designed to fit into a jacket pocket so that it could be taken into the field".
References
External links
Telegraph newspaper article on Gresham- Daily Telegraph obituary
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1924 births
2009 deaths
Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Alumni of King's College London
Fellows of Jesus College, Cambridge
British pathologists