James Vincent Duhig (1889–1963) was an Australian pathologist. In Brisbane, he established the first pathology laboratories at the Mater Misericordiae Hospital and the

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. He campaigned successfully to establish a medical school in Queensland (now the

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). He was the University of Queensland's first professor of pathology from 1938 to 1947. He founded the Red Cross Blood Bank in Queensland. He was the Australian President of the Association of Clinical Pathologists and campaigned for the establishment the

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. Duhig was also recognised as an art aficionado and critic who wrote for ''

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'', and president of the

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1937–1946. He donated a collection of books to the Darnell Collection, University of Queensland. He was the nephew of James Duhig, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Brisbane, but it was a problematic relationship for the Archbishop as his nephew was a secular rationalist.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Duhig, James Vincent Australian pathologists 1963 deaths 1889 births 20th-century biologists