Joseph Fairweather Lamb

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(1928–2015) was a 20th-century Scottish physician, who was Emeritus Professor of the Chandos Chair of Physiology at the

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Life

He was born at Balnacake Farm near

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on 18 July 1928A History of Medicine in the University of St Andrews, J S G Blair the son of Joseph Lamb, a tenant farmer, and his wife, Agnes Fairweather. He was educated at Aldbar School then

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. He then studied Medicine at

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, graduating MB ChB. After a spell as a physician he returned to university to obtain a PhD then took lectureships at the

and the

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. In 1969 he was appointed to the Chandos Chair of Physiology at the

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and held the post for 24 years until 1993. From 1998 until 2003 he led the

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at the

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. He was elected as a Fellow of the

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in 1986. He died peacefully in Edinburgh's Western General Hospital on 18 September 2015. He is buried in the modern northern extension to

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in western Edinburgh. The grave lies to the north-west.

Family

He was married twice: firstly to Olivia Horne and following divorce to Bridget Cook. He had three children by the first marriage and two by the second.

Publications

*''Essentials of Physiology'' (1991)

References

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