Sir Thomas Lauder Brunton 1844 - 1916
- occupation:
- Pharmacologist, Physician
- Nationality:
- Scottish
- born in:
- Roxburgh, Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom
1866 - graduated University of Edinburgh with MB CM with honours;
1867 - house physician at Edinburgh infirmary;
1868 - published thesis on digitalis and awarded MD; studied pharmacology and physioloigcal chemistry in Vienna, Berlin, Amsterdam and Leipzig with Willy Kuhne and Carl Ludwig;
1870 - lecturer in materia medica and pharmacology at Middlesex Hospital;
1871 - lecturer in materia medica and pharmacology at St Bartholomew’s Hospital; development of experimental pharmacology;
1874 - elected Fellow of Royal Society;
1900 - knighted;
1908 - baronetcy
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