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Born August 17, 1798 • England
Died April 5, 1866 (aged 67) • Tel Aviv–Yafo • Israel
Notable Family Members spouse Dorothy Hodgkin
Subjects Of Study Hodgkin lymphoma
William Worrall Mayo
American physician
William Harvey
William Harvey
English physician
Joseph Lister
Joseph Lister
British surgeon and medical scientist
Edward Jenner
Edward Jenner
English surgeon
Erasmus Darwin, detail of an oil painting by Joseph Wright, 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Erasmus Darwin
British physician
William Withering
William Withering
English physician
Elizabeth Blackwell
Elizabeth Blackwell
British American physician
John Caius
John Caius
British physician
William Budd
English physician
Thomas Young, engraving
Thomas Young
British physician and physicist
Sir Charles Sherrington.
Sir Charles Scott Sherrington
British physiologist
Havelock Ellis
Havelock Ellis
British essayist and physician
Bowman, Sir William, 1st Baronet
Sir William Bowman, 1st Baronet
English surgeon and histologist
Sir Alan Hodgkin
Sir Alan Hodgkin
British biophysicist
Sir Peter Mansfield
British physicist
A.V. Hill, detail of a pencil drawing by F.W. Schmin, 1923
A.V. Hill
British physiologist and biophysicist
Berkeley George Andrew Moynihan, 1st Baron Moynihan
British surgeon
George Redmayne Murray
British physician
Sir John Robert Vane
British biochemist
Andrew Fielding Huxley
Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley
British physiologist