Ruth Sanger

Ruth Ann Sanger ( born June 6, 1918 in Southport, † June 4, 2001 in Putney ) was an Australian hematologist.

Life

Sanger was the daughter of a headmaster and went himself in Sydney to school and to the university with a medical degree in 1938 she worked at the blood bank of the Red Cross in Australia before she went in 1946 to England with the blood group specialist Robert Russell Race (1907. - 1984) to work, the director of the research department on blood groups of the Medical Research Council ( MRC) was at the Lister Institute in London. In 1948 she received her doctorate at the University of London. They returned briefly to Australia, but remained in 1950 in England at the blood group of the MRC unit. In 1973, she was succeeded by Race as head of the blood unit and Director of the MRC. In 1983 she retired.

Sanger was with Robert Russell Race, her husband since 1956, author of a standard work on human blood groups. The first edition from 1950 was partially out of her dissertation work. She was involved in several hematological findings, including the Xg blood group system ( gender- specifically bound to the X chromosomes ).

She was a Fellow of the Royal Society since 1972. In 1973 she was awarded the Oliver Memorial Award of the British Red Cross, 1957 Race the Karl Landsteiner Memorial Award and 1972 both received the Gairdner Foundation International Award, and in 1970 Philip Levine Award.

Her marriage to Race remained childless.

Writings

• By Robert Russell Race Blood Groups in Man, 6th edition, Oxford: Blackwell 1975 German translation The blood groups of man, Thieme 1958