Frederick Roland George Heaf (21 June 1894 – 4 February 1973), until 1916 Fritz Rudolf Georg Hief, was a British physician. He was born in

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, of

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ancestry. He attended Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and St Thomas' Hospital as a medical student, where his studies were interrupted by the

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. in 1915 he volunteered for the

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, where he served briefly, but was then allowed to complete his medical studies, qualifying in 1918. As a conscientious objector he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps, and was eventually promoted captain. After the war he followed a career in

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and became a Professor at the

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in 1949. His lifelong interest was in

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, and the

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formerly used in the UK for immunity to TB was named after him.

Publications

''Rehabilitating the Tuberculous'' - F. R. G. Heaf and John Bowes McDougall (1945) ''Recent advances in respiratory tuberculosis'' - F. R. G. Heaf (1968)

References

HEAF, Prof. Frederick Roland George
''Who Was Who'', A & C Black, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 (subscription required) *B.G. Firkin & J.A.Whitworth (1987). ''Dictionary of Medical Eponyms''. Parthenon Publishing.

(

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obituaries) *FRG Heaf at www.heaf.co

1894 births 1973 deaths British conscientious objectors People associated with the Friends' Ambulance Unit 20th-century English medical doctors British pulmonologists Academics of the University of Wales People from Desborough Alumni of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians English people of German descent {{UK-med-bio-stub