Person

Reye, Ralph Douglas Kenneth (1912 - 1977)

Born
5 April 1912
Townsville, Queensland, Australia
Died
16 July 1977
North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation
Pathologist

Summary

Ralph Reye was a pathologist whose name has been applied to several childhood conditions. He was the first to describe what are referred to as Reyeoma I and Reyeoma II, malignant subdermal fibrous tumours of infancy and the cytoplasmic inclusions in the recurring fibromas. With colleagues he published on encephalopathy and fatty degeneration of the viscera, known as Reye's Syndrome, and on renal artery stenosis in the rubella syndrome, the first time this had been recognized. As Director of Pathology at the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children in Sydney for over 30 years, Reye appointed specialists in fields such as haematology and virology, and established a cryogenics laboratory.

Skip to

Details

Chronology

1937
Education - MB BS, University of Sydney
1939 - 1941
Career position - Pathologist, Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children, Sydney
1941 - 1946
Career position - Acting Director of Pathology, Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children, Sydney
1945
Education - MD, University of Sydney
1946 - 1977
Career position - Director of Pathology, Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children, Sydney
1965 - 1977
Award - Fellow, Royal Australasian College of Physicians

Related Corporate Bodies

Published resources

Book Sections

  • Heagney, Brenda; Storey, G.N.B., 'Reye, Ralph Douglas Kenneth (1912-1977), Pathologist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 16: 1940 - 1980 Pik-Z, John Ritchie and Diane Langmore, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2002), p. 80. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A160092b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

  • Alexander, J. M., 'Obituary: Ralph Douglas Kenneth Reye B.Sc. (Syd., 1937), M.D. (Syd., 1945), F.R.A.C.P., F.R.C.P.A., F.R.C.Path (Eng.)', Australian Paediatric Journal, 14 (1978), 48. Details
  • E., J. L., 'Ralph Douglas, Kenneth Reye M.D.Sy, F.R.A.C.P., F.R.C.P.A., F.R.C.Path.', The Lancet, 311 (8055) (1978), 111. Details

Resources

See also

  • Hamilton, D. G., Hand in hand: the story of the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children (Sydney: John Ferguson, 1979), 338 pp. Details

Helen Cohn

Last modified: 9 April 2019

EOAS ID: biogs/P005783b.htm

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
What do we mean by this?

Published by Swinburne University of Technology.
This Edition: 2024 November (Ballambar - Gariwerd calendar - early summer - season of butterflies)
Reference: http://www.bom.gov.au/iwk/calendars/gariwerd.shtml#ballambar
For earlier editions see the Internet Archive at: https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.eoas.info

The Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation uses the Online Heritage Resource Manager (OHRM), a relational data curation and web publication system developed by the eScholarship Research Centre and its predecessors at the University of Melbourne 1999-2020. The OHRM has been maintained by Gavan McCarthy since 2020.

Cite this page: https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P005783b.htm

"... the rengitj, as a visible mark or imprint on the land, is characterised as a place of origin, the repository of all names, as well as a kind of mapped visual expression of the connection between people and places which is to be carried out in the temporal sequence of the journey." Fanca Tamisari (1998) 'Body, Vision and Movement: In the footprints of the ancestors'. Oceania 68(4) p260