Obituary: Professor S. Francis Fish

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S. FRANCIS FISH was one of the men of vision who played a part in bringing about the expansion of, and fundamental changes in, our dental schools - institutions which in the UK are integrated in various degrees with medical schools. These changes took the schools from their rather old-fashioned and creaky state before the Second World War into educational centres well able to hold their own as integral components of universities, by virtue of their research; and as centres which provide a model for small-group teaching of a profession in which manual skills play a dominant part.

An essential feature of the changes was the acquisition of frameworks of full-time, and …