DAVIES, HAROLD WHITRIDGE (1894-1946), professor of physiology, was born on 27
June 1894 in Adelaide, eldest of five children of Edward Harold Davies, musician
and music teacher, and his wife Ina Jane, née Deland. Educated at Prince Alfred
College, Harold graduated from the University of Adelaide (M.B., B.S., 1917) and
on 5 July 1917 was appointed captain, Australian Army Medical Corps, Australian
Imperial Force. He served on the Western Front with the 3rd Division. From late
1919 Davies spent three terms as an advanced student at New College, Oxford. He
then worked at the Ashurst War Hospital as a research-assistant to J. S. Haldane,
a leading respiratory physiologist. Davies's first scientific papers were in this
field, which was to be his major research interest throughout the rest of his
career.
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Harold Whitridge Davies was Professor of Physiology, University of Sydney 1930-40.
Educated University of Adelaide (MB, BS). Captain, Australian Army Medical Corps 1917-18, Research Assistant with J.S. Haldane, New College, Oxford, Research Assistant and Lecturer, Department of Therapeutics, University of Edinburgh, Rockefeller Foundation Fellow and Assistant Physician, Hospital of Rockefeller Institute, New York, Lecturer in Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Leeds, Professor of Physiology, University of Sydney 1930-40.
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