Person
Lambie, Charles George (1891 - 1961)
- Born
- 24 July 1891
Port of Spain, Trinidad - Died
- 28 August 1961
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Medical scientist
Summary
Charles Lambie was the first full-time professor of medicine in Australia, being Bosch Professor at the University of Sydney from 1930 to 1957. His teaching had a profound influence on the discipline with nearly 20 graduates from his School also becoming Professors of Medicine at Australian universities. Lambie's principal research interests related to diabetes: he was the first in Europe to use insulin for the treatment of this disease. His major publication, written with Jean Armytage, was Clinical diagnostic methods, or the examination of patients (1947-1948) and embodied his belief in the need for a complete history and physical examination of the patient. He was a advocate of a liberal education encompassing sciences and the humanities. In 1931 he proposed the establishment of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and was a founding Fellow in 1938.
Details
Chronology
- 1914
- Education - MB ChB, University of Edinburgh
- 1914 - 1915
- Career position - Resident Physician, Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh
- 1915 - 1919
- Career position - Served with the Royal Army Medical Corps
- 1918
- Award - Military Cross (MC)
- 1919 - 1922
- Career position - Lecturer in Pharmacology, University of Edinburgh
- 1921
- Education - Member, Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh
- 1922 - 1930
- Career position - Assistant Physician, Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh
- 1923 - 1926
- Career position - Beit Memorial Fellow, University of Edinburgh
- 1923 - 1926
- Career position - Lecturer in Clinical Medicine, University of Edinburgh
- 1924 - 1962
- Education - Fellow, Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh
- 1926 - 1930
- Career position - Lecturer, School of Medicine, Royal Colleges of Edinburgh
- 1927
- Education - MD, University of Edinburgh
- 1927 - 1961
- Career position - Fellow, Royal Society of Edinburgh
- 1928
- Award - Lister Fellowship, Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh
- 1930 - 1938
- Career position - Member, Association of Physicians of Australasia
- 1930 - 1957
- Career position - Bosch Chair of Medicine, University of Sydney
- 1936 - 1937
- Career position - Member, Nutrition Advisory Council, Commonwealth Government
- 1938 - 1961
- Career position - Foundation Fellow, Royal Australasian College of Physicians
Related entries
Published resources
Books
- McDonald, G. L., Roll of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (Sydney: Royal Australasian College of Physicians, 1988), 332 pp. Details
Book Sections
- Blackburn, C. R. B., 'Lambie, Charles George (1891-1961), professor of medicine' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 9: 1891 - 1939 Gil-Las, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1983), pp. 651-652. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090655b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- Maddox, J. Kempson, 'Charles George Lambie', Medical Journal of Australia, 1962 (1) (1962), 146-7. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q22443718. Details
- 'Lambie, Charles George (1891-1961)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1467660. Details
See also
- Legge, J. W.; and Gibson, F., 'Victor Martin Trikojus, 1902-1985', Historical Records of Australian Science, 6 (4) (1987), 519-531. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9870640519. Details
Gavan McCarthy [P004098] and Helen Cohn
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 6 October 2023
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