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Purves' merits were recognised by his colleagues in Dunedin who made him President of the University of Otago Medical Research Society in 1955 and upon his retirement, a life member of the Society. The endocrinologists of New Zealand elected him President of the New Zealand Society of Endocrinology
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Purves was later supported by funds from a Medical Research Council grant for research into thyroid problems, administered by a committee headed by Sir Charles Hercus. Hercus encouraged Purves to take the Medical course, which he did between 1935 and 1941 when he graduated MB/ChB. In 1941 Purves
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Research Unit. In 1968, the Unit became the Laboratory of Experimental Endocrinology and Metabolism, and in 1971, the Neuroendocrinology Group. Purves played a leading role in the abolition of thyroid enlargement (goitre) which once disfigured nearly 20% of the population.
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from 1963 to 1968, and his colleagues abroad conferred on him the title of Distinguished Thyroid Scientist at the seventh International Thyroid Conference in 1975.
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student who did not make the Scholarship list. The scholarship required Purves to study science or medicine at the
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New Zealand academic, chemist, mathematician, medical researcher and scientist (1908–1993)
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Purves' working life was spent in full-time medical research at the
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in 1939. She survived him as did their two daughters and one son.
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New Zealand Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George
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in Dunedin. He began in 1932, as a research assistant to Sir
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He died on 15 April 1993, aged 84, after a long illness.
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Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians
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He was educated at Hastings West Primary School and
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