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DB. A. A. HABPBE, who has been appointed to succeed Prof. D. Burns, is a graduate of the University of Aberdeen, where he first read for a degree in classics. After qualifying in medicine he filled the usual clinical appointments and then took up physiology, working first with the late Prof. McSwiney in Leeds and afterwards at St. Thomas's Hospital Prof. Harper's interests are in the control of digestive secretion, and his work on secretin led in 1943 to the discovery with H. S. Raper of pancreozymin. By this time Harper had taken up an appointment as lecturer in human physiology in in the University of Manchester and later he became reader there. At present he is studying the further purification of pancreozymin in and also working on the control of gastric secretion. Prof. Harper is a most successful teacher, and his students and colleagues have not been slow to recognize this. The happy combination of teaching and research capabilities make it certain that he will be a stimulating influence in the Medical School at Newcastle.
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Physiology at King's College, Newcastle: Prof. A. A. Harper. Nature 164, 399 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164399b0
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