In 1956, he was awarded his Doctor of Medicine from the University of Sydney for his work on The action of anoxia and noradrenaline in the experimental production of pulmonary oedema.
In 1961 he was admitted as a Member of Worcester College, Oxford, and was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy for his thesis, A Clinical and Experimental Study of Chronic Sub-dural
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