William Turner (anatomist)
Sir William Turner (born January 7, 1832 in Lancaster , † February 15, 1916 in Edinburgh ) was a British anatomist .
Life
William Turner studied medicine in London from 1850 to 1854. In Edinburgh he took over the post of demonstrator of anatomy at the university there. In total he stayed at the University of Edinburgh for 62 years , since 1862 as full professor of anatomy. From 1903 until his death in 1916 he was rector of the university.
Turner was interested in several medical specialties. Although most of his 200+ scientific publications concerned descriptive anatomy, comparative anatomy and anthropology, his scientific investigations also extended to the fields of physiology , pathology and histology .
His main work was the atlas and textbook of human anatomy and physiology .
William Turner was raised to the non-hereditary knighthood and on August 17, 1912 accepted as a foreign member of the order Pour le Mérite . From 1908 to 1913 he was President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh . Tuner was also a member of the Royal Society . In 1898 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences .
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Order Pour le Merite for Science and the Arts. The members of the order, Volume II , page 260/261, Gebr. Mann-Verlag, Berlin, 1978
- ^ Document EC / 1877/19 in the Archives of the Royal Society , London
- ^ Members of the previous academies. Sir William Turner. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on June 24, 2015 .
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| SURNAME | Turner, William |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British anatomist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 7, 1832 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lancaster |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 15, 1916 |
| Place of death | Edinburgh |