Person    | Male  Born 19/6/1883  Died 4/6/1953

Doctor George Scott Williamson

Categories: Community / Clubs, Medicine

Countries: Scotland

Medical practitioner and biologist. Born in Ladybank, Fife. He worked on thyroid research at the Royal Free Hospital, with Innes Pearse who he later married. Together they developed the 'Peckham Experiment' at the Pioneer Health Centre.  Died at the Kent and Sussex Hospital, Tunbridge Wells.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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Doctor George Scott Williamson

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