John Malcolm (professor)

John Malcolm CMG (31 August 1873 – 17 June 1954) was a New Zealand professor at the University of Otago and physiologist.

He was born in Halkirk, Caithness, Scotland, on 31 August 1873[1] the son of John Malcolm, a public works contractor.

He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh graduating with an MBChB in 1897 and gaining his MD in 1899.

His proposers were Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer, William Anderson Bain, Walter Phillips Kennedy, and Philip Eggleton.

[7] One of their sons, John Laurence Malcolm, after working as senior lecturer with John Eccles from 1942 to 1947 at the University of Otago, worked temporarily at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School in London, then emigrated from New Zealand in 1953 to be professor of physiology at the University of Aberdeen and died in 2001.