David Hull (paediatrician)

Sir David Hull FRCP FRCPCH (4 August 1932 13 March 2021) was a British paediatrician. Hull was most notable for research and for a paper he published in 1963 in the Journal of Physiology with Michael Dawkins, about research into brown fat, an adipose-like tissue found in hibernating animals and in the human Infant and for later contributions considered outstanding in research conducted on Lipid metabolism and Thermoregulation.

Sir David Hull
David Hull, coauthor of Essential paediatrics
Born(1932-08-04)4 August 1932
Blackburn, Lancashire, England
Died13 March 2021(2021-03-13) (aged 88)
NationalityBritish
Alma materLiverpool University
Known forResearch into brown fat
AwardsFRCP, FRCPCH, James Spence Medal in 1996
Scientific career
FieldsPaediatrics
InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford
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