Reginald Arthur Shooter CBE FRCS FRCPath (4 April 1916 – 24 December 2013[2]) was a British microbiologist.[3] He led the enquiry into the 1978 smallpox outbreak in the United Kingdom[4] and was appointed a CBE in the 1980 Birthday Honours. He retired in 1981.[5]
R. A. Shooter | |
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| Born | Reginald Arthur Shooter 4 April 1916 Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England |
| Died | 24 December 2013 (aged 97) |
| Alma mater | |
| Children | Adrian Shooter[1] |
Reginald Shooter's oldest child, and only son, was Adrian Shooter, the railway manager best known for leading Chiltern Railways after the privatisation of British Rail and for forming the Vivarail engineering company.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b "Shooter, Reginald Arthur (1916 - 2013)". Plarr's Lives of the Fellows. Royal College of Surgeons of England. 18 June 2014. Retrieved 15 December 2022.
- ^ "R.A Shooter Obituary". Obituary. The Times. 31 December 2013. Archived from the original on 4 January 2014.
- ^ "Shooter, Prof. Reginald Arthur". Who's Who (online ed.). A & C Black. 2013. Retrieved 24 February 2013 – via Oxford University Press.
- ^ Shooter, R.A. (22 July 1980). Report of the investigation into the cause of the 1978 Birmingham smallpox occurrence (PDF) (Return to an Order of the Honourable House of Commons). London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office.
My colleagues and I are grateful to Professor Shooter and the members of his group …
- ^ "Reginald A. Shooter Retires". Infection. 10 (3): 184. 1982. doi:10.1007/BF01640773. S2CID 46980381.
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