Thomas Henry Flewett | |
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 In his laboratory at East Birmingham (now Heartlands) Hospital in 1984 | |
| Born | 29 June 1922 Shimla, India |
| Died | 12 December 2006 (aged 84) Solihull, United Kingdom |
| Alma mater | Queen's University Belfast |
| Known for | Rotaviruses |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Virology |
| Institutions | Regional Virus Laboratory, Birmingham |
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Thomas Henry Flewett, MD, FRCPath, FRCP (29 June 1922 – 12 December 2006) was a founder member (and subsequently Fellow) of the Royal College of Pathologists and was elected (by distinction) a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London in 1978. He was chairman of the World Health Organization (WHO) Steering Committee on Viral Diarrhoeal Diseases, 1990–3, and a member until 1996. His laboratory in Birmingham was a World Health Organization Reference and Research Centre for Rotavirus Infections from 1980 until his retirement in 1987. He was an external examiner, visiting lecturer, and scientific journal editor. He was a member of the board of the Public Health Laboratory Service (now UK Health Security Agency) from 1977 to 1983 and was chairman of the Public Health Laboratory Service's Committee on Electron Microscopy from 1977 to 1987.
Flewett received his medical education at Queen's University, Belfast, where he graduated with honours at the end of the World War II in 1945. In 1951 he married June Evelyn Hall who predeceased him. He was survived by their two daughters, Janet Anne and Judy Elizabeth. Another daughter, Pamela Margaret Jane, died in infancy.[1]