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Archibald Byron Macallum 1859-1934
Photo by Alan L Brown - Posted June, 2009
Photo from Google Street View ©2010 Google - Posted December, 2010
Photo Source - Wikipedia
Plaque Location
The County of Middlesex
The City of London
Inside the Middlesex Court House
on the southwest corner of Dundas Street and Ridout Street
on the wall in the reception area
Coordinates: N 42 58.926 W 81 15.261 |
Plaque Text
Born at Belmont, Upper Canada, and educated at Toronto and Johns Hopkins, Macallum joined the faculty of the University of Toronto and established there the first physiological laboratory in Canada. As Professor of Biochemistry at Toronto (1908-18), Chairman of the National Research Council (1916-20), and Professor of Biochemistry at McGill (1920-29), Dr. Macallum was a pioneer in scientific medicine and an authority in the field of cellular microchemistry. The author of many scientific papers, he was elected F.R.S.C. in 1901 and F.R.S. in 1906. He died at London, Ontario.
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