Professor Henry Barcroft

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Physiologist Henry Barcroft gained a double first in the Tripos examinations at King's College, Cambridge, England. He spent two years studying circulatory problems in animals, and then spent three years completing his medical qualification at St Mary's Hospital, London, England. He worked for three years at University College London, and in 1935 gained the Dunville Chair of Physiology at Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland. He was appointed to the chair at the Sherington School of Physiology at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School in London, England, in 1948.

Barcroft, Henry

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Professor D.R. Wilkie

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Physiologist Douglas Wilkie studied Medicine at University College, London, England, on a shortened course during the second world war. He undertook the last year of his medical education at Yale University on a Rockefeller Studentship. He became assistant lecturer in the Physiology Department of University College in 1945 at the age of only 23, and was soon awarded a Readership. He became internationally respected for his work on the supply of energy for muscle contraction.

Wilkie, Douglas Robert

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Dr Martin Wright

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Bioengineer Martin Wright was born in London, England, in 1912. He gained a first class degree in Physiology from Trinity College, Cambridge, England, and graduated in medicine in 1938. After the second world war, he joined the Medical Research Council's pneumoconiosis unit.

Wright, Basil Martin

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