Between two worlds : the story of Black British scientist Alan Goffe / Gaia Goffe and Judith Goffe, MD.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goffe, Gaia, 1989- author.

Goffe, Judith, author.

Series:

African Diaspora, 1860-Present (Text)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Microbiologists--Great Britain--Biography.

Microbiologists.

Scientists, Black--Great Britain--Biography.

Scientists, Black.

Poliomyelitis vaccine--History.

Poliomyelitis vaccine.

Measles vaccine--History.

Measles vaccine.

Goffe, Alan, 1920-1966.

Goffe, Alan.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (94 pages) : illustrations, portraits

Place of Publication:

London : Hansib Publications, 2008.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Between Two Worlds is the moving story of a renowned medical scientist who was tragically cut down in his prime. Alan Goffe was born in Britain in 1920 to a Jamaican father and an English mother, both of whom were physicians. During the 1950s and 1960s, Dr Alan Goffe was one of a group of microbiologists who helped develop and improve vaccines designed to fight two of the world's most deadly infectious diseases - polio and measles. However, he was not destined to see the fruits of his labours. Less than a year after establishing the department of experimental cytology at the Wellcome Research Laboratories, he tragically drowned in a yachting accident off the southern coast of England. He was forty-six.

Contents:

A boy born to be a scientist

The thing has a history

The race is on

Kingston-upon-Thames, not Kingston, Jamaica

Salk is first across the finish line

A political life

Measles is a damn dull disease

The final chapter: a good life.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed September 11, 2019).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 87-89).

OCLC:

1130724677