Geoffrey Howard Bourne (17 November 1909 – 19 July 1988) was an Australian-American

anatomist Anatomy () is the branch of biology concerned with the study of the structure of organisms and their parts. Anatomy is a branch of natural science that deals with the structural organization of living things. It is an old science, having its ...

and primatologist. In particular, he studied the

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, conducting pioneering work in

histochemistry Immunohistochemistry (IHC) is the most common application of immunostaining. It involves the process of selectively identifying antigens (proteins) in cells of a tissue section by exploiting the principle of antibodies binding specifically to ant ...

. Bourne was director of

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from 1962 until 1978. Prior to coming to Emory he had taught histology at the

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and physiology at

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. He received his doctorates from Oxford University (D.Sc., 1935; Ph.D., 1943) and was a fellow of the

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Bibliography

* (ed.) (1942) ''Cytology and Cell Physiology'' * (1949) ''The Mammalian Adrenal Gland'' * (1956) ''Biochemistry and Physiology of Bone'' * (1957) ''Vitamin C in the Animal Cell'' * (ed.) (1961) ''Physiological and Pathological Aging'' * (1962) ''Structure and Function of Muscle'' * (1970) ''Ape People'' * (1974a) ''Non-Human Primates and Medical Research'' * (1974b) ''Primate Odyssey'' * (1975) ''The Gentle Giants: The Gorilla Story' * (ed.) (1977) ''Human and Veterinary Nutrition'' * (ed.) (1988) ''Sociological and Medical Aspects of Nutrition''

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'' 1909 births 1988 deaths Australian anatomists Primatologists 20th-century American zoologists Australian emigrants to the United States {{US-biologist-stub