Allan Watt Downie

{{Short description|Scottish microbiologist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Use British English|date=November 2016}} '''Allan Watt Downie''' FRS<ref name="frs">{{Cite journal | last1 = Tyrrell | first1 = D. A. J. | last2 = McCarthy | first2 = K. | doi = 10.1098/rsbm.1990.0004 | title = Allan Watt Downie. September 1901 – 26 January 1988 | journal = Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society | volume = 35 | pages = 98–112 | year = 1990 | doi-access = free }}</ref> (5 September 1901 – 26 January 1988)<ref name="pmid2649681">{{Cite journal | last1 = McCarthy | first1 = K. | last2 = McEntegart | first2 = M. | title = Allan Watt Downie, 5th September 1901 – 26 January 1988 | journal = Journal of Medical Microbiology | volume = 28 | issue = 4 | pages = 291–295 | year = 1989 | doi = 10.1099/00222615-28-4-291 | pmid = 2649681 }}</ref> was a Scottish microbiologist involved in the eradication of smallpox.<ref name="urlExtinction – a good thing?">{{cite web |url=http://royalsociety.org/page.asp?id=7862 |title=Extinction – a good thing? |access-date=2009-03-03| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090208133250/http://royalsociety.org/page.asp?id=7862| archive-date= 8 February 2009 | url-status= live}}</ref> He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in March 1955.<ref name="frs"/>

Downie bodies are named for him.

==See also== * Hal Downey

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==External links== * [http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw100640/Allan-Watt-Downie?LinkID=mp75252&search=sas&sText=allan+watt+downie&role=sit&rNo=0 Image held at The National Portrait Gallery]

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