Thomas Henry Flewett [SEP] date of birth
Thomas Henry Flewett
Thomas Henry Flewett, MD, FRCPath, FRCP (29 June 1922 – 12 December 2006) was a founder member (and subsequently Fellow) of the Royal College of Pathologists and was elected (by distinction) a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London in 1978. He was chairman of the World Health Organization (WHO) Steering Committee on Viral Diarrhoeal Diseases, 1990–3, and a member until 1996. His laboratory in Birmingham was a World Health Organization Reference and Research Centre for Rotavirus Infections from
1964–65 and 1967), reader (1967–84) and a professor (1984–99). In between, he took a sabbatical during 1965 to 1967 and worked as an ICMR Senior Research Fellow at National Institute of Virology under the guidance of T. Ramchandra Rao, as a Senior Medical Commonwealth Fellow with Thomas Henry Flewett and Peter Wildy at University of Birmingham and as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the laboratory of F. Lehmann-Grube at University of Hamburg. Post-retirement, he served at the Faculty of Medicine of Kuwait University and