Born Rotalben, Bavaria to a French father. Worked as a doctor in France and Germany. He wrote on preventative medicine and toured Europe promoting his ideas. Died in Vienna where, despite his retirement, he was practicing.
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Johann Peter Frank
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Cedric Keith Simpson
Forensic pathologist. Born Brighton. When Simpson became interested in forensics Bernard Spilsbury was practically the only other person in the field. Spilsbury was not interested in training other...
1 memorial
Sir David Bruce
Born Melbourne, Australia but the family returned to Scotland when he was 5 . Pathologist and microbiologist, investigated sleeping sickness.
1 memorial
Sir John Pringle
Military physician. Born Roxburghshire, Scotland. Studied in Flanders/Netherlands, where he later returned in his role as military physician, and Paris. Instituted sanitary reforms first on battlef...
Person, Armed Forces, Medicine, France, Netherlands, Scotland
1 memorial
Royal College of Pathologists
Initially they used some space at the HQ of the British Empire Cancer Campaign at 12 Grosvenor Crescent. In 1965 they moved to premises owned by the Royal Society of Medicine, Chandos House, Queen ...
1 memorial
Miss M. M. Masson
Lady District Officer in the St John Ambulance Brigade, No. 1 District, 1914-1939. Serving Sister in the Order of St John.
Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration
1 memorial
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Sir Francis Drake
Sea captain, explorer and pirate. Born in Crowndale, near Tavistock, Devon. He spent his formative years in the house of his cousin Sir John Hawkins and by 1565 was voyaging to Guinea and the Spani...
6 memorials
Dennis Gabor
SW7, Queen's Gate, 79
Plaque unveiled by Sir Eric Ash, former rector of Imperial College and Gabor's first doctoral student.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
King Henry VIII
Son of Henry VII. Born Born Greenwich Palace, as the spare, not the heir but his brother Arthur predeceased him and their father, aged 15, but not before marrying Catherine of Aragon, who later in ...
23 memorials
Victor mosaic
SW1, Carteret Street
Ian Visits corrected the wide-spread miss-attribution of this advertisement to the Victor Talking Machine Company. He has, correctly we'...
1 subject commemorated
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