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William Maxwell Cowan. 27 September 1931 — 30 June 2002

Author(s) -

Geoffrey Raisman

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

biographical memoirs of fellows of the royal society

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1748-8494

pISSN - 0080-4606

DOI - 10.1098/rsbm.2008.0002

Subject(s) - shipyard , estate , work (physics) , closure (psychology) , operations research , management , history , medicine , sociology , art history , classics , engineering , law , ancient history , political science , mechanical engineering , shipbuilding , economics

William Maxwell Cowan (‘Max’) was born in 1931 in Johannesburg. His father was a former Glasgow shipyard engineer driven by the imminent closure of the Clyde shipyards to seek employment in the mining industry in South Africa. Max's parents had intended him to be a real–estate lawyer. However, after taking the initial courses in languages, economics and history at Witwatersrand University, a short vacation work period as a trainee nurse in a psychiatric hospital had aroused what was to be his lifelong interest in the workings of the brain. Max decided he wanted to transfer to medical school.

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