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Sylvia Dorothy Lawler, born Sylvia Dorothy Corben and later remarried as Sylvia Dorothy Bagshawe (1922–1996), worked in the field of human genetics. Sylvia was born and raised in Bournemouth, England, she was the only child of a furniture salesman and a school teacher. She went on the study medicine at the University College London in 1939, distinguishing herself and graduating as the gold medalist of her year in 1945. She married Lawrence John Lawler who was captain in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME); he later became a schoolteacher. They had one son, Anthony John born in 1955.〔 Lawler's first marriage was dissolved in 1976, and on 28 January 1977 she married Kenneth Dawson Bagshawe, professor of medical oncology in the University of London, and son of Harry Bagshawe. Lawler died on 17 January 1996.〔 ==Career== She began her work on the newly discovered rhesus blood-group system, and in 1949 she was invited to join the world's first department for the study of human genetics at Galton Laboratory at University College, London.〔 She went on to publish a book intitled ''Human Blood Groups and Inheritance'' in 1963. Other publications during this period included ''A Genetical Study of the Gm Groups in Human Serum'' in 1960 and ''A pedigree showing some rare Rh genotypes'' Lawler was appointed as research scientist at the Institute of Cancer Research in London in 1960 and became the institute's first female professor in 1980. There she developed a broad interest in the genetics of malignancy. she made major contributions to the development of these tissue-typing techniques. Lawler laid the scientific foundation for work in bone-marrow transplantation and became chairman of the transplantation immunology subcommittee of the National Organ-Matching Service. She was a founder member of the International Workshops on Chromosomes in Leukaemia, and also established the first national fetal tissue bank in the UK, with support from the Medical Research Council.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sylvia Lawler」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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