Dr William Frankland, immunologist behind pollen count, dies aged 108

'Grandfather of allergy' survived three years in Japanese POW camp before pioneering medical career

Dr William Frankland, a pioneering British immunologist who transformed the world's understanding of allergies, has died aged 108.

Frankland improved the lives of millions of hay fever sufferers by developing the idea of a pollen count. Until his death the oldest survivor of the Japanese prisoner of war camps, he published a scientific paper in September 2017 aged 105.