Person
Campbell, Alfred Walter (Snowy) (1868 - 1937)
- Born
- 18 January 1868
Cunningham Plains, New South Wales, Australia - Died
- 4 November 1937
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Neurologist and Pathologist
Summary
Alfred Campbell was renowned as one of the pioneers of the study of the neuronal architecture of the primate cerebral cortex. His neuroanatomical and neuropathological research was conducted while Medical Officer and Director of Pathology at the Rainhill County Mental Hospital near Leeds in England. The results of his intensive studies of the histological structure of the human cerebral cortex were published in his landmark book Histological studies on the localisation of cerebral function (1905). On returning to Australia, Campbell was the first to have a full-time neurological practice in Australia. For some years he was honorary consultant to the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children and the Coast (Prince Henry) Hospital, Sydney. He research, some of which was unpublished, included work on poliomyelitis and Australian X-disease (probably Murray Valley Encephalitis). While serving with the Australian Army Medical Corps during WWI and afterwards as a consultant to the Department of Repatriation, Campbell was particularly involved with the treatment of nervous conditions and those caused by mental stress.
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Chronology
- 1889
- Education - MB ChM, University of Edinburgh
- 1892
- Education - MD, University of Edinburgh
- 1892 - 1905
- Career position - Medical Officer and Director of Pathology, Rainhill County Mental Hospital, near Liverpool, England
- 1905 - ?
- Career position - Honorary Captain, Australian Army Medical Corps
- 1905 - 1937
- Career position - In private practice as specialist in neurology and mental diseases, Sydney
- 1907 - 1937
- Career position - Member, Royal Society of New South Wales
- 1914 - 1915
- Career position - 2nd Australian General Hospital, Cairo
- 1916 - 1918
- Career position - Military Hospital, Randwick, New South Wales
- 1921 -
- Career position - Foundation Councillor (Pathology), Australian National Research Council
- 1925
- Career position - Chairman, Neurology and Psychiatry Section , New South Wales Branch, British Medical Association
- 1932
- Career position - Chairman, Neurology and Psychiatry Section , New South Wales Branch, British Medical Association
Related entries
Published resources
Books
- Macmillan, Malcolm, Snowy Campbell, Australian Pioneer investigator of the brain (Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Press, 2016), 239 pp. Details
Book Sections
- Ford, Edward, 'Campbell, Alfred Walter (1868-1937)' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds, vol. 7 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1979), pp. 541-542. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070544b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- Eadie, M. J., 'A. W. Campbell: Australia's first neurologist', Clinical and Experimental Neurology, 17 (1981), 27-35. Details
- Eadie, M.J., 'A.W. Campbell's Australian career: 1905-1937', Journal of Clinical Neuroscience, 8 (6) (2001), 514-9. Details
- Eadie, M.J., 'Alfred Walter Campbell (1868 - 1937)', Journal of Neurology, 250 (2) (2003), 249-50. Details
- Foley, Paul B., and Catherine E. Storey., 'History of neurology in Australia and New Zealand', Handbook of clinical neurology, 95 (2010), 781-800. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0072-9752(08)02148-9. Details
- Fulton, J. F., 'Alfred Walter Campbell MD ChM 1868 - 1937', Archives of neurology and psychiatry, 40 (1938), 566-8. Details
- Geffen, Laurie and Spencer, Nick J., 'Early Australian neuroscientists and the tyranny of distance', Journal of the history of the neurosciences, 33 (1) (2023), 57-72. https://doi.org/10.1080/0964704X.2023.2232824. Details
- Macmillan, M., 'Evolution and the neurosciences down-under', Journal of the history of the neurosciences, 18 (2) (2009), 150-96. https://doi.org/10.1080/09647040701662377. Details
- Macmillan, Malcolm, 'Alfred Walter Campbell and the visual functions of the optical cortex', Cortex, 56 (2014), 157-81. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4723589. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/233345791. Details
- 'Campbell, Alfred Walter (1868-1937)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1469610. Details
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Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 6 October 2023
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