Peter Beighton
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Peter Beighton, a geneticist was born in England 1934 and in 1957 he qualified in medicine at the University of London's St Marys Hospital.
In 1968 Beighton published a report in the British Heart Journal outlining that air travel can produce "an ideal climate for precipitating Deep vein thrombosis". The airlines refused to warn passengers and it was only in the early 1990s that the link between long flights and deep vein thrombosis was made public.
In 1972, Beighton was appointed as Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Cape Town's Faculty of Medicine. He was involved in researching inherited disorders of the skeleton and connective tissues.
Beighton has received many awards including the gold medal of the British Orthopaedic Association, the President's Medallion of the South African Orthopaedic Association, the Smith & Nephew literary award and the silver medal of the South African Medical Research Council. In 2002, he received the Order of Mapungubwe - Bronze, for outstanding achievements in medical genetics.
