James Shields (21 November 1918 – 20 June 1978) was a Scottish psychiatric geneticist and twin researcher.
[1] In the 1960s, he worked with Irving Gottesman on a twin study of schizophrenia at the Medical Research Council Psychiatric Genetics Unit at Maudsley Hospital in London, England.
[2] He had previously begun working for Eliot Slater at Maudsley after serving in the United Kingdom's Royal Artillery during World War II.
[1] After Shields died in 1978, Gottesman founded the annual James Shields Award for Lifetime Contributions to Twin Research in his honor.
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