PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION

Founded 1518 by Henry VIII in London.

Official Website:
http://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/

Location:
London, England

Founding Date:
1518

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
David W. K. Acheson	Government	?		Food Safety Czar
Edgar Adrian	Scientist	30-Nov-1889	4-Aug-1977	Electricity within nerve cells
Mark Akenside	Poet	9-Nov-1721	23-Jun-1770	The Pleasures of the Imagination
John Arbuthnot	Doctor	1667	27-Feb-1735	Scriblerus Club
Hastings Banda	Head of State	1898	25-Nov-1997	First President of Malawi
Robert Bridges	Poet	23-Oct-1844	21-Apr-1930	Prometheus the Firegiver
Frank Macfarlane Burnet	Scientist	3-Sep-1899	31-Aug-1985	Acquired immunological tolerance
George Busk	Doctor	12-Aug-1807	10-Aug-1886	British surgeon and zoologist
John Caius	Doctor	6-Oct-1510	29-Jul-1573	Second founder of Gonville and Caius College
John Langdon Down	Doctor	18-Nov-1828	7-Oct-1896	Down's syndrome
Alexander Fleming	Scientist	6-Aug-1881	11-Mar-1955	Discovered penicillin
Joseph Mortimer Granville	Doctor	1833	1900	Electric vibrator
Susan Greenfield	Scientist	1-Oct-1950		Brain Story
John Scott Haldane	Doctor	3-May-1860	14-Mar-1936	Breathing regulated by CO2
William Harvey	Doctor	1-Apr-1578	3-Jun-1657	Discovered circulation of blood
J. Hughlings Jackson	Doctor	4-Apr-1835	7-Oct-1911	Father of British neurology
Bernard Katz	Scientist	26-Mar-1911	20-Apr-2003	Neurotransmitters and the pineal gland
Thomas Linacre	Doctor	c. 1460	20-Oct-1524	Established the Royal Academy of Physicians
John Macleod	Scientist	6-Sep-1876	16-Mar-1935	Helped discover insulin
Victor A. McKusick	Scientist	21-Oct-1921	22-Jul-2008	Father of medical genetics
Edward Mellanby	Doctor	8-Apr-1884	30-Jan-1955	Rickets
William Osler	Doctor	12-Jul-1849	29-Dec-1919	Father of psychosomatic medicine
Sir Hans Sloane	Curator	16-Apr-1660	11-Jan-1753	Milk chocolate and the British Museum
William Stukeley	Historian	7-Nov-1687	3-Mar-1765	Stonehenge, a Temple Restored
Max Theiler	Scientist	30-Jan-1899	11-Aug-1972	Yellow fever vaccination
Robert Willan	Doctor	12-Nov-1757	17-Apr-1812	Dermatologist, On cutaneous diseases

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