Level of Description: Fonds

Extent and Medium of the unit of description: 1 item

Name of creator(s): Grist, Professor Norman Roy

Administrative/Biographical History
Professor Norman Roy Grist was educated at Shawlands Academy, Glasgow and the University of Glasgow graduating BSc in 1939 and MB, ChB, 1942. He held the position of House Physician at Gartloch Hospital from 1942-1943 before joining the RAMC. Following the Second World War he held positions at the Victoria Infirmary, Glasgow and Ruchill Hospital, Glasgow, becoming a Lecturer at Glasgow University in 1952. He became a Reader in Viral Epidemiology in 1962 and was appointed Professor of Infectious Diseases in 1965. He retired in 1983.

Scope and content
Account of D-Day landing, 1944.

Conditions governing access
Access to some items may be restricted. Please contact the Archivist at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.

Conditions governing reproduction
Identification of copyright holders of unpublished material is often difficult. Permission to make any published use of any material from the collection must be sought in advance from the Archivist. We will try to assist in identifying copyright owners but the responsibility for copyright clearance before publication ultimately rests with the reader.

Language/scripts of material

Finding aids

Related units of description
Papers of Professor Grist at Greater Glasgow Health Board Archive GB 812 HB63.

Archivist's Note
Compiled by Carol Parry, College Archivist, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.

Rules or Conventions
ISAD(G): General International Standard Archival Description, International Council on Archives (2nd edition, 2000).

Date(s) of Descriptions
June 2004