biography
| name: |
Altounyan, Roger Edward Collingwood
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pronunciation:
[altoonyan]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1922–87)
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| biography:
| Physician and medical pioneer, born in Syria of Armenian–English extraction. He spent his summer holidays with his four sisters in the Lake District, where they met the author Arthur Mitchell Ransome and became the real-life models of the children in his Swallows and Amazons series of adventure books. He qualified as a doctor, later joining a pharmaceutical company, where he developed the drug sodium cromoglycate to combat asthma, from which he was himself a sufferer. A pilot and flying instructor during the war, he developed the Spinhaler device to inhale the drug, based on the aerodynamic principles of aircraft propellers. |
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