on the critical collaboration he conducted in the international coordinated study on growth, with Professor Robert Debré and the Centre Internationale de l’Enfance on Paris. In 1952 he was Charles West lecturer at the Royal College of Physicians. In 1961 he was awarded the James Spence Gold Medal of Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, for developing the first premature-baby unit in 1947. In 1964 he was awarded the title of Professor Emeritus of the University of London. References 1901 births 1971 deaths Medical doctors from Bournemouth British paediatricians Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians Fellows of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists English justices of the peace Rockefeller Fellows Medical Research Council (United Kingdom) people Officers of the Order of the British Empire Recipients of the James Spence Medal Knights Bachelor Academics of the University of London