F. R. G. Heaf

Who was F. R. G. Heaf?

Professor Frederick Roland George Heaf, until 1916 Fritz Rudolf Georg Hief, was a British physician.

He was born in Desborough, Northamptonshire, England, of German ancestry. He attended the University of Cambridge and St Thomas' Hospital as a medical student, where his studies were interrunpted by the First World War. He was recognised as a conscientious objector in 1916, and briefly served in the Friends' Ambulance Unit, but was then allowed to complete his medical studies. He followed a career in Public health and became a Professor at the University of Wales in 1949. His lifelong interest was in tuberculosis and the test used in the UK for immunity to TB used is named for him.