James Dixon Boyd
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James Dixon Boyd was an Irish-American Professor of Anatomy, Cambridge University
Professor of Anatomy, Cambridge University
The chair of the Professor of Anatomy at the University of Cambridge was founded by the university in 1707. In 1924, the scope of the professorship was extended from purely human anatomy to cover the anatomy of all vertebrates, as well as embryology....

 from 1951 until his death and a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge
Clare College, Cambridge
Clare College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England.The college was founded in 1326, making it the second-oldest surviving college of the University after Peterhouse. Clare is famous for its chapel choir and for its gardens on "the Backs"...

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In 1933 he married Amélie Loewenthal; Sir Robert Boyd
Robert Boyd (paediatrician)
Sir Robert David Hugh Boyd FRCP, FFPH, FRCPCH, FMedSci is a British paediatrician and head of research and Development for Greater Manchester NHS. From 1989 to 1993 he was Dean of the Medical School and Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Manchester...

is their son.
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