George Wyburn

Prof George McCreath Wyburn FRSE FRFPSG (1903–1985) was a British embryologist. He served as Professor of Anatomy at Glasgow University from 1948 to 1972.

He studied Medicine at Glasgow University under Prof Thomas Hastie Bryce, graduating MB ChB in 1925. He spent time in various Scottish hospitals in the few years thereafter. In 1930 he rejoined the Anatomy Department as a lecturer/demonstrator and in 1935 became a senior lecturer. He gained a doctorate (DSc) in 1938 and won the Struthers Medal in 1939 for his embryological research.

In 1938 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Duncan McCallum Blair, John Walton, Thomas Hastie Bryce, and George Walter Tyrrell. He resigned from the Society in 1972.

In 1944 he became Head of the Anatomy Department and in 1948 he succeeded Prof William James Hamilton as Professor of Anatomy at Glasgow University.

In 1947 he won the Struthers Medal for a second time (jointly with Paul Bacsich) for work on repair of peripheral nerve injuries during the Second world War.

In the 1970s he made a study trip to Otago University in New Zealand and donated a high number of anatomical copper plates.

He retired in 1972 and died in 1985. His position as Professor of Anatomy was filled by Prof Raymond Scothorne.

• A Textbook of Human Embryology (1965)