This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Contact lenses
Commemorated ati
George Nissel
George Nissel, 1913 - 1982, founder of G. Nissel & Co, first independent ...
Josef Dallos
Unveiled on the same day as the Nissel plaque. We learnt something typing th...
K. C. Hall
Keith Clifford Hall, FSMC, FAAO, DCLP, 1910 - 1964, pioneer in the fitting of...
Other Subjects
Thomas Hodgkin
Physician, pathologist, reformer and philanthropist., of Hodgkin's disease fame. Born Middlesex. Died Jaffa, Palestine (now Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel).
South London Hospital for Women
Hospital for women and children. Founded by surgeons Eleanor Davies-Colley and Maud Chadburn. Throughout its existence, it was staffed by women only. The original building was designed by Sir Edwin...
Sir Harold Gillies
Pioneer plastic surgeon. Born Dunedin, New Zealand. Came to England as a student at Cambridge and qualified as a surgeon in 1910. The two world wars provided him with the inspiration (and the patie...
Old Operating Theatre
It was a conversion of part of the garret of St Thomas's Church in 1822. The odd location is explained by the fact that it abutted the female surgical ward of St Thomas's. The hospital began to mov...
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children
Founded as The Hospital for Sick Children, the first hospital in England to provide in-patient beds specifically for children. Its first premises were at 49 Great Ormond Street a converted 17th cen...