Miles, Ashley, Sir, 1904-1988 (Nombre personal)

Topley and Wilson's Principles of bacteriology, virology, and immunity, 1983: CIP (Miles, Sir Ashley) page opposite title page (Sir Ashley Miles CBE, MD, FRCP, FRCPath, FRS; Deputy Director, Department of Medical Microbiology, London Hospital Medical Coillege, London; Emeeritus Professor of Experimental Pathology, University of London, and formerly Director of the Lister Institute of Preventitive Medicine, London)

LC data base, 6-16-83 (hdg.: Miles, Arnold Ashley, Sir, 1904-; usage: Ashley Miles; variant: A.A. Miles)

Infection and sepsis in industrial wounds of the hand: a bacteriological study of aetiology and prophylaxis, 1949: title page (A. A. Miles)

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, via WWW, January 16, 2015 (Miles, Sir (Arnold) Ashley (1904-1988); microbiologist; born on 20 March 1904 in York; he attended King's College, Cambridge, where he obtained second classes in both parts of the natural sciences tripos (1924 and 1925); after qualifying in medicine (MRCS LRCP, 1928) at St Bartholomew's Hospital, Miles obtained in 1929 membership of the Royal College of Physicians while still a house physician (FRCP, 1937); in 1929 Miles was appointed demonstrator at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; in 1935 he became reader in bacteriology at the British Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith, and was appointed in 1937 to the chair of bacteriology at University College Hospital medical school; during the war, Miles was a sector pathologist in the Emergency Medical Service, acting director of the Graham Medical Research Laboratories, and director of the Medical Research Council's wound infection unit in Birmingham; after the war Miles was appointed in 1946 deputy director of the National Institute for Medical Research and head of its department of biological standards; in 1952 Miles was appointed director of the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine; in the same year he became MD and professor of experimental pathology in the University of London; as well as publishing more than 140 papers on his own work, he was joint editor, with Sir Graham Wilson, of five editions of Topley and Wilson's Principles of Bacteriology and Immunity; after his official retirement from the Lister in 1971 he spent four years on laboratory studies at the Clinical Research Centre, after which he was invited in 1976 to become deputy director of the department of medical microbiology at the London Hospital Medical College; Miles' contributions to biomedical science were recognized by his appointment as CBE (1953) and a knighthood (1966); in 1930 Miles married Ellen Marguerite Dahl, the sister of writer Roald Dahl; Miles died on 11 February 1988 at his home, 7 Holly Place, Hampstead, London)