L'histoire
Copp decided to enter medicine when his brother died after being shot by a burglar. He completed an MD, then a second doctorate in biochemistry. It was the middle of World War II, and Copp was speedily recruited to the top secret Manhattan Project, developing the atomic bomb. Copp\'s team worked at the University of California at Berkeley, focussing on the effects of radiation on human bone marrow.
After the war, Copp continued as an instructor at Berkeley. In 1950, he returned to Canada and joined the University of British Columbia as the first Head of the Department of Physiology. His investigation of the regulation of calcium in the body led in 1961 to his world famous discovery of calcitonin, a hormone that inhibits the release of calcium from the bones. Calcitonin is used in its synthetic form to treat the a bone disease osteoporosis, and other diseases such as Paget’s disease, hypercalcemia, and rheumatoid arthritis.
Copp served as President of the Royal Society of Canada\'s Academy of Science. He was inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame as one of 10 chartered members in May, 1994. His induction into the Canadian Science & Engineering Hall of Fame came posthumously, in 2000.
Sources: Georgia Straight, July 1, 1994, Physiology Canada Volume 31, Number 2/3, December, 2000, UBC Senate Minutes, May 20, 1998.
La personne
- Date de naissance
- 16 janvier 1915
- Lieu de naissance
- Toronto, Ontario
- Date de la mort
- 7 mars 1998
- Endroit de la mort
- Vancouver, AVANT JÉSUS CHRIST
- Titre
- Biochimiste ; Ancien chef de service de physiologie
- Bureau
- UBC
- Situation
- Deceased
- diplomes
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- MD, université de Toronto, 1939
- PhD (biochimie), université de la Californie chez Berkeley, 1943
- Recompenses
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- Fellow, Royal Society
- Fellow, Royal Society of Canada
- Officer of the Order of Canada
- Gairdner Award, 1967
- Flavelle Medal
- Jacob Biely Research Prize
- Inductee, Canadian Medical Hall of Fame, 1994
- Inductee, Canadian Science & Engineering Hall of Fame, 2000
- Dernier mis à jour
- 14 mai 2020
- Popularité
- 34296
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