Coombs, Robin

Coombs, Robin
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Robert Royston Amos Coombs 
      British immunologist (b. Jan. 9, 1921, London, Eng.—d. Jan. 25, 2006, Cambridge, Eng.), devised the Coombs test, a diagnostic blood procedure to determine the presence of antibodies, which thus made it possible to identify certain types of anemia, cross match compatible blood for transfusions, and, especially, diagnose and treat life-threatening hemolitic incompatibility between a pregnant woman with Rh-negative blood and her Rh-positive fetus or newborn. Coombs spent his early years in South Africa before obtaining a degree (1945) at the Royal Veterinary College in Glasgow, Scot., and a doctorate in pathology (1947) from the University of Cambridge, where he made his breakthrough discovery while he was still a graduate student. He remained at Cambridge as a fellow (1947–2006) and as Quick Professor of Immunology from 1966 until his retirement in 1988. Coombs was coauthor of the widely used textbook Clinical Aspects of Immunology (1963). He was elected (1965) to the Royal Society and in 1973 was made an honourary fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.

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