Person
ten Seldam, Rolf Edouard Jan (1906 - 1982)
- Born
- 2 April 1906
Jakarta, Indonesia - Died
- 19 October 1982
Perth, Western Australia, Australia - Occupation
- Pathologist
Summary
Rolf ten Seldam was a pathologist who believed pathology to be the most important discipline in medicine. His principal interests were in the geographic distribution of disease and particularly in cancer. Before coming to Australia he held a number of positions in the Netherlands and was Director of the Dutch East Indies Cancer Institute in Bandung, Java. After fine years at the University of Sydney, ten Seldam became foundation Professor of Pathology at the University of Western Australia and Head of the Department of Pathology at Royal; Perth Hospital. With these appointments he helped bridge the divide between experimental and diagnostic pathology. He was active in professional and public health organisations, being Vice-President for Oceania of the International Union Against Cancer, and in 1966 was President of the World Health Organization Committee for Skin Tumours.
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Chronology
- 1932
- Education - MD, University of Leiden
- 1936 - 1941
- Career position - Director, Dutch East Indies Cancer Institute, Bandung, Java
- 1941 - 1946
- Career position - Served with Dutch East Indies Army
- 1951 - 1956
- Career position - Senior Lecturer in Pathology, University of Sydney
- 1956
- Career position - Reader in Pathology, University of Sydney
- 1956 - 1971
- Career position - Head of Department of Pathology, Royal Perth Hospital
- 1956 - 1971
- Career position - Foundation Professor of Pathology, University of Western Australia
- 1960
- Award - Officer of the Orange Nassau Order, Netherlands(OONO)
- 1966
- Career position - President, WHO Committee for Skin Tumours
- 1971
- Life event - Retired
Published resources
Book Sections
- Mulcahy, Clement, 'ten Seldam, Rolf Eduard Jan (1906-1982), Professor of Pathology' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 18: 1981 - 1990 L-Z, Melanie Nolan, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2012), pp. 498-9. http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/ten-seldam-rolf-15918. Details
Journal Articles
- Finlay-Jones, L. R., 'Rolf Edouard Jan ten Seldam O.O.N.O., M.D. (Leiden), F.R.C.P.A., F.R.C.Path., F.R.S.M. born 2 April 1906, died 19 October 1981', Pathology, 15 (1983), 508-9. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21537616. Details
- 'ten Seldam, Rolf (19060402-19821019)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1515783. Details
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