MEDICAL AWARD
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) MELBOURNE, October 19. Two Australian doctors whose discoveries have led to the prevention of blindness in babies have shared a £5OOO medical award. . They are Dr. Kate Campbell, of Melbourne, and Sir Norman Gregg, of Sydney. The announcement of the awards was made today by the director of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute (Sir Macfarlane Burnet), who is chairman of the medical committee which selected the prize-winners. Dr. Campbell, a Melbourne child specialist, recognised in 1951 that an important cause of blindness In premature babies, retrolental fibroplasia, was due to oxygen overdose. She received the C.B.E. for her work.
Sir Norman Gregg, aged 72, an opthalmic surgeon, in 1941 recognised that blindness from congenital cataract could follow infection of the mother with rubella (German measles) in the first three months of pregnancy.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30576, 20 October 1964, Page 17
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