C J Hackett
- Date:
- 1943 - 1958
- Reference:
- WA/MMS/AD/Cur/3
- Part of:
- Wellcome Museum of Medical Science
- Archives and manuscripts
Collection contents
About this work
Publication/Creation
1943 - 1958
Physical description
1 box
Biographical note
When the museum re-opened after WWII, C J Hackett took on the position of Director. An Australian by birth, he trained in England, and after serving in the RAF during WWII transformed the Medical Museum into a postgraduate teaching museum. His own area of research was in the eradication of yaws. He was in post until 1954, when he left to take up a post at the World Health Organisation