Thomas Fraser
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DescriptionTHOMAS FRASER 1872 - 1951 MEDICAL SCIENTIST WORKED IN THIS BUILDINGHistoryT FRASER – Researcher, Physician and Decorated war veteran
Thomas Fraser was born in Kintore and educated at Robert Gordon’s College. He was University of Aberdeen medical graduate in 1898, in the same class as JJR Macleod. He worked with local Zoologist John Rennie on a ‘near-miss’ trial of fish insulin to treat diabetes in the first few years of the 20th Century; their extracts were not pure enough to be tolerated by injection. He had a distinguished career during the first World War being awarded the DSO. He worked as a physician in Aberdeen Royal infirmary and lecturer in the University of Aberdeen Medical School. He was elected President of the British Medical Association 1939-42.
The plaque was erected in 2004 on the wall of 16 Albyn Place, where Dr Fraser had formerly worked. Fraser’s nephew made a nomination in response to a competition run by Aberdeen City Council and funded by them as part of the Energising Aberdeen initiative.
Location Info16, Albyn Place
