Ruthven Blackburn

Charles Ruthven Bickerton Blackburn was an Australian physician who was a professor of medicine at the University of Sydney.
The son of Sir Charles Bickerton Blackburn, an Australian university chancellor and physician, during World War II Ruthven Blackburn was Commanding and Senior Physician of the Land Headquarters Medical Research Unit, Australian Army Medical Corps.
In 1940, he married Eleanor Freeman ; they had two daughters, Susan Ann and Sandra. In 1968, he married colleague and asthma researcher Ann Woolcock. The couple raised two sons, Simon and Angus.
In 2006, he was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia in recognition of his service to the development of academic medicine and medical education in Australia.
Blackburn died on 12 April 2016, aged 102.