Henry Bedson was born on 29 September 1929 to Sir Samuel Bedson and Dorothea Annie Hoffert, [2] the second of three sons. [3] He was educated at Brighton, Hove and Sussex Grammar School, before gaining admission to the London Hospital Medical College, [2] [4] where his father was professor of bacteriology. [3] He graduated in 1952 after having received the Charrington prize for anatomical ...

Henry Bedson was the second son of Sir Sam Bedson FRS, of Hove, who had been professor of bacteriology at the London Hospital. His paternal grandfather, Peter Philips Bedson, was professor of chemistry at Newcastle. Bedson’s mother was Dorothea Annie Hoffert PhD, who worked on aeroplane dopes and subsequently did research on oils and fats at ...

Born Henry Samuel Bedson in England, the second of three sons to Sir Samuel Bedson and Dorothea Hoffert Bedson, he received his primary education at Brighton, Hove, and Sussex Grammar School. He was soon accepted into the London Hospital Medical College, where his father taught bacteriology. After his graduation in 1952, he found work in ...

Sep 9, 2015 · Parker, a 40-year-old British medical photographer, had been employed at the University of Birmingham and assigned a darkroom located above a laboratory in the university’s medical school overseen by Henry Bedson, an infectious disease expert conducting research into smallpox. By the late 1970s, smallpox was on the verge of extinction.

Aug 10, 2018 · Prof Henry Bedson headed the smallpox laboratory at Birmingham Medical School - where Mrs Parker worked - one of only a handful commissioned by the WHO to research the disease.

Nov 12, 2019 · Professor Henry Bedson. As the days went on Parker’s condition deteriorated. She was left almost blind in both eyes from the sores and doctors believed she had gone into renal failure. On 5 September, Parker’s 77-year-old father died from cardiac arrest unable to handle the stress of his daughter's illness. The next day, Prof Bedson went ...

Jun 26, 2022 · It was overseen by Dr. Henry Bedson, a virologist who was studying the different varieties of smallpox and how new strains might infect humans. The vials of smallpox were refrigerated and contained within a small, sealed area of Bedson's lab. He had acquired the samples only recently, having traveled to London in May 1978 to accept them from a ...

May 15, 2016 · The third, Henry Bedson, thought he was on the brink of eradicating smallpox, but his rush to achieve that goal led to Janet’s death. Riddled with guilt, he took his own life.

Aug 18, 2013 · The lab, headed by Professor Henry Bedson was winding down its research. Bedson was caught between competing demands. He believed he was on the verge of a breakthrough in smallpox research, and ...

He also drives the attention on key players in smallpox eradication, including epidemiologist Dr Bill Foege, who devised the ring-vaccination strategy, and Professor Henry Bedson, a poxvirus expert who headed a smallpox laboratory at Birmingham Medical School.