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McLeod, , bacteriologist
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Male
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Birth:
17 January 1887
Death:
17 January 1978
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Biography
Introduction
James Walter McLeod (1887–1978) was a Scottish bacteriologist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1933.
Life
He was born at Dumbarton, the son of John McLeod, an architect, and his wife Lilias Symington. He was educated in Switzerland, at Mill Hill School, and at Glasgow University from 1903.
McLeod graduated M.B. in 1908, and worked in Glasgow and as a ship's surgeon. He was a pathology lecturer in London from 1912, and started to specialise in streptococci. In World War I he served in the RAMC, and afterwards he went to Leeds as a lecturer in bacteriology. He was there until 1952, retiring as a professor, and made his reputation by studies of diphtheria.