Claude Ernest Dolman

Claude Ernest Dolman
Born	May 23, 1906(1906-05-23) Porthleven, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Died	December 15, 1994(1994-12-15) (aged 88) Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Residence	Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Citizenship	Canadian
Fields	Microbiology
Institutions	University of British Columbia
Alma mater	St Mary's Hospital Medical School

Claude Ernest Dolman (May 23, 1906 – December 15, 1994) was a Canadian academic and microbiologist.

Born Porthleven, Cornwall, United Kingdom, Dolman received his medical education from St Mary's Hospital Medical School.^[1] His teachers included Alexander Fleming and Almroth Wright. Fleming encouraged Dolman to conduct research into the Staphylococcus bacteria.^[2] In 1931, he moved to Canada and became a Research Assistant and Clinical Associate in Connaught Laboratories at the University of Toronto. In 1925, he moved to Vancouver. From 1936 to 1951, he was the head of the Department of Bacteriology and Preventive Medicine at the University of British Columbia and from 1951 to 1961 he was the head of the Department of Bacteriology and Immunology. He was also acting head of the Department of Nursing and Health from 1933 to 1943 and was head of the Department from 1943 to 1951.^[1]

In 1947, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and later served as its president for a term from 1969 to 1970.^[1]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} "Claude Dolman fonds". University of British Columbia. http://www.library.ubc.ca/archives/u_arch/dolman.html. 
2. ^ Lawrence K. Altman (1998). Who Goes First?: The Story of Self-experimentation in Medicine. University of California Press. ISBN 0520212819. 

Professional and academic associations
Preceded by Léon Lortie	President of the Royal Society of Canada 1969-1970	Succeeded by Roy Daniells

Persondata
Name	Dolman, Claude
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	May 23, 1906
Place of birth	Porthleven, Cornwall, England
Date of death	December 15, 1994
Place of death	Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada