Prof William Mapleson

Career: Nat Serv instr in radar Flying Offr RAF 1947-49; Coll of Med Univ of Wales (now Cardiff Univ): lectr 1952-65, sr lectr 1965-69, reader 1969-73, prof of physics of anaesthesia 1973-91, emeritus prof and conslt Dept of Anaesthetics 1991-; Pask Certificate of Honour AAGBI 1972, Faculty Medal Royal Coll of Anaesthetists 1981, Dudley Buxton Medal Royal Coll of Anaesthetists 1992, Henry Hill Hickman Medal RSM Section of Anaesthesia 1999, Sir Ivan Magill Medal AAGBI 2002, Mushin Medal 2003; hon memb: Brazilian Soc of Anaesthesiology 1983, Assoc of Anaesthetists of GB and I 1991, Hon FRCA 1996; FInstP, fell Inst of Physics and Engrg in Med (FIPEM)

Books and Publications: Automatic Ventilation of the Lungs (jtly, 3 edn, 1980); author of more than 100 papers in learned scientific journals