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Denis Parsons Burkitt, MD, FRCS (Ed), FRS [1] (28 February 1911 – 23 March 1993) was an Irish surgeon who made significant advances in health, such as the aetiology of a pediatric cancer, now called Burkitt's lymphoma, and the finding that rates of colorectal cancer are higher in those who eat limited dietary fibre .
- British
- 23 March 1993 (aged 82), Gloucester, England
- 28 February 1911, Enniskillen, Ireland
The Parsons code, formally named the Parsons code for melodic contours, is a simple notation used to identify a piece of music through melodic motion – movements of the pitch up and down. [1] [2] Denys Parsons (father of Alan Parsons [3] ) developed this system for his 1975 book The Directory of Tunes and Musical Themes .
Mar 19, 2024 · Denis Parsons Burkitt (born Feb. 28, 1911, Enniskillen, N.Ire.—died March 23, 1993, England) was a British surgeon and medical researcher. Burkitt graduated from Trinity College , Dublin, in 1933 and earned his medical degree there in 1946 after serving as a doctor in the British army during World War II .
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Denys Parsons (1914, died circa 2000) was the grandson of actor Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree. He was the father of Alan Parsons, the producer of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon and leader of the Alan Parsons Project. Website search services employing the Barlow method and the Parsons method are available.
Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology. Parsons, Denys (1914-) British administrator and documentary film director who for some years was joint honorary secretary of the Society for Psychical Research, London. He was born on March 12, 1914, in London, England.
Apr 16, 1993 · Denis Parsons Burkitt was born on Feb. 28, 1911, in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, where his father was a surveyor and naturalist. The senior Burkitt is credited with pioneering the ringing of...
Denys Parsons ( Londres, 12 mars 1914 1 — 3 juillet 1995) est un auteur britannique. Il est l'inventeur en 1975 d'une méthode de notation musicale imprécise mais extrêmement simple destinée à l'indexation des thèmes musicaux. L'idée d'un dictionnaire des thèmes musicaux était apparue en 1948 quand Harold Barlow et Sam Morgenstern ...
