Greenwood, Alan William.

Alan William Greenwood was born on 29 June 1897, in Melbourne, Australia. He was educated at Wesley College and then entered Melbourne University in 1915. During the First World War he served with the Australian Imperial Forces in Palestine. In 1920 he graduated with the degree of B.Sc. in Chemistry and Zoology. In 1921 he took the degree of M.Sc., and then in 1922 undertook work in cytology.

In 1923, Greenwood went abroad, coming to Britain, and intended working at Cambridge - but came to Edinburgh to the Animal Breeding Research Department on the advice of Professor Cossar Ewart.

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