Ralph Hudson Johnson
{{Short description|British neurologist}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox academic
| name = Ralph Hudson Johnson
| image = Ralph Hudson Johnson 1981 (cropped).jpg
| alt =
| caption = Johnson in 1981
| birth_date = {{birth date|1933|12|03|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Sunderland, England
| death_date = {{death date and age|1993|07|01|1933|12|03|df=yes}}
| death_place = Oxford, England
| education = University of Cambridge
University of Oxford
| discipline = Neurology
| sub_discipline=
| workplaces = Radcliffe Infirmary
Wellington Clinical School of Medicine
Wadham College, Oxford
| spouse = {{marriage|Gillian Keith|1970}}
| children = 2
}}
Ralph Hudson Johnson FRSE (3 December 1933 – 1 July 1993) was a 20th-century British neurologist.
Early life and education
He was born on 3 December 1933 in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-ralph-johnson-1483944.html|title=Obituary: Ralph Johnson|last=Weatherall|first=D.J.|date=1993-07-09|publisher=The Independent|access-date=2024-01-16}} the son of Sydney Reynald Edward Johnson, an electrical engineer, and his wife, Phyllis. He attended Lawrence Sheriff School and then won a scholarship to Rugby School. He won a double scholarship and obtained multiple degrees at both University of Cambridge and University of Oxford.
Career
Johnson completed his training at UCL Medical School in London, in 1958. In 1960, he moved to the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford, where he conducted research on artificial respiration for poliomyelitis and rehabilitation of paraplegics, winning awards from the Polio Research Fund, British Medical Association and the Schorstein Medical Research Fellowship of Oxford University.{{cite web|url=https://www.rse.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/obits_alpha/johnson_ralph.pdf |title=RALPH HUDSON JOHNSON Biography |website=Rse.org.uk |accessdate=2017-01-21}}
He was awarded multiple doctorates and honorary doctorates throughout his career. In 1976 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were John A Simpson, Robert Martin Stuart Smellie, Henry G Morgan, and Reginald Passmore.{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0-902-198-84-X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf}}
In 1977, he went to the newly-created Wellington Clinical School of Medicine in New Zealand as its first dean. Mixing research with organisational skills, he created a new Diploma in Community Health in 1981, and a department of post-basic nursing studies in collaboration with the Victoria University of Wellington.{{Cite web |title=Ralph Hudson Johnson {{!}} RCP Museum |url=https://history.rcplondon.ac.uk/inspiring-physicians/ralph-hudson-johnson |access-date=2023-09-29 |website=history.rcplondon.ac.uk}} In 1987 he returned to Britain, taking up a Fellowship at Wadham College, Oxford.{{citation needed|date=February 2022}}
Death
A keen apiarist, he died of anaphylactic shock after having been stung by a swarm of his own bees in his garden in Oxford on 1 July 1993.{{cite web|url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/1993/07/06/dr-ralph-hudson-johnson-59-director-of/|title=Dr. Ralph Hudson Johnson, 59, director of...|date=1993-07-06|publisher=Baltimore Sun|access-date=2024-01-16}}{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1993/07/06/deaths/8a3dedc2-f3e3-4aa9-b1da-25ab5ebd2868/|title=DEATHS: R. H. Johnson|date=1993-07-06|publisher=Washington Post|access-date=2024-01-16}}
Publications
- Disorders of the Automatic Nervous System (1974) with J M K Spalding
- Multiple Sclerosis in Scotland (1978)
- Neurocardiology (1985) with Lambie and Spalding
Family
References
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Category:People from Sunderland
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