| |
|
Clan Munro USA
Genealogy Pages
|
 |
|
 1915 - 1994 (79 years)
-
| Name |
Hamish Nisbet Munro [1] |
| Born |
3 Jul 1915 |
Edinburgh, , Midlothian, Scotland  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
28 Oct 1994 |
Glasgow, , Lanark, Scotland |
| Buried |
London, , Greater London, England |
- Hamish was buried at the Highgate Cemetery.
|
| Person ID |
I22618 |
Munro |
| Last Modified |
24 Feb 2014 |
| Father |
Donald Munro, b. 18 Oct 1883, Dornoch, , Sutherland, Scotland , d. 29 Feb 1948 (Age 64 years) |
| Mother |
Margaret Nisbet, b. 11 Oct 1884, Inverness, , Inverness, Scotland , d. Yes, date unknown |
| Family ID |
F22588 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Edith Little, b. 30 Jun 1920, Aberdeen, , Aberdeen, Scotland , d. 23 Jan 1987, London, , Greater London, England (Age 66 years) |
| Married |
- Hamish and Edith had 3 sons and 1 daughter, a grandson and 2 granddaughters.
|
| Children |
|
| Last Modified |
24 Feb 2014 |
| Family ID |
F8057 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
-
| Notes |
- Hamish was a native of Glasgow, Scotland. He earned his medical degree at Glasgow University and went on to hold several academic posts there. In 1966, after publication of his pioneering four-volume series "Mammalian Protein Metabolism," he joined the faculty at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
As a scientist, Hamish focused on protein metabolism and nutrition's role in the aging process. In 1980 he became founding director of Tufts University's Human Nutrition Research Center in Aging. He headed the Center for three years and continued to teach at Tufts until his retirement in 1991.
He was a fellow of the Royal Society
of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Physicians of London. He served as president of the American Institute of Nutrition and was a member of the National Academy of Science.
He won many prestigious awards, including the Osborne and Mendel Award, the Borden Award and the Bristol-Meyers Award for distinguished achievement in nutrition.
He died of Parkinson's disease in Glasgow at the age of 79.
Dr. Irwin H. Rosenberg, Hamish's successor at the Human Nutrition Research Center in Aging said: "As one of the most gifted writers, challenging teachers and incisive scientists of his time, Dr. Munro helped redefine the importance of nutrition in human metabolism."
Ref: Clan Munro files - Munro, Ronald Geyer
|
-
| Sources |
- [S893] Clan Munro e-files - Munro, Colin, Colin Munro, E-mail from Colin Munro - 18 Feb 2014 (Reliability: 3).
|
|
|
|
