Achievements After graduation from Oxford and Edinburgh, Dunlop worked briefly in London before returning to his native Edinburgh and taking up the Christison Chair of Therapeutics and Clinical…
Achievements In her classic paper on sympathin (adrenaline and noradrenaline), published in 1954 during her 17 years at the University of Edinburgh, Vogt proposed the chemical transmission of…
Achievements Kosterlitz is widely regarded as the discoverer of the enkephalins, the body's own natural opiates – and he only began this research late in his career, publishing his first paper on…
Achievements Schild’s work laid the foundations for many major developments in pharmacology. Originally trained in medicine, he remained interested in the application of pharmacology to clinical…
Achievements Inspired by his pharmacist father, Bowman began his academic career with a first class degree specializing in pharmacology from the London School of Pharmacy, followed by a PhD from the…
Achievements Paton was “marked for distinction” at an early age: following his graduation with a first class degree from New College, Oxford, he won gold medals during his clinical training at…
Achievements Jack’s career started as an apprentice at Boots the Chemists, before he took a joint honours degree in Pharmacy and Pharmacology at Glasgow University and the Royal Technical College…
Achievements Burn worked on the internal control of the body by the auto(matic)nomic nervous system, carrying out seminal work on the release of noradrenaline from sympatheric nerves and introducing…
Achievements Eleanor — Nora to her friends — made substantial contributions in neuromuscular and cardiovascular pharmacology, and her work led to the development of methonium compounds and the…
Achievements Clark was the leading UK pharmacologist during the 1930s, whose ideas underpin much of the modern development of pharmacologyHis enthusiasm for pharmacology came from his training in…
