John Maxwell Anderson

John Maxwell Anderson (1928 to 1982) was a Scottish consultant surgeon and cancer specialist whose research focused on tissue transplantation, cancer immunology and chemotherapy. Educated at Madras College in St Andrews and Strathallan School in Perthshire, he graduated from the University of St Andrews in 1952, completed national service with the Royal Air Force, and in 1959 became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons and of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. From 1960 he was senior registrar to Professor Ian Aird at the Hammersmith Hospital in London, after which he conducted research at Harvard Medical School and the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston. In 1966 he became consultant surgeon at Glasgow Royal Infirmary. He edited and wrote books on the biology and surgery of tissue transplantation and on the transplantation immunology of viviparity. He died in 1982 after a fall from the roof of his house while carrying out a home repair.