King's College Hospital - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

  • James W. Black - 1924-2010 Nobel Prize for Medicine winner 1988 for his contribution to discoveries of important principles for drug treatment
  • William Bowman - 1837-1865 Ophthalmic surgeon, helped found Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom
  • John Leonard Dawson - 1932-1999 Serjeant Surgeon to the Royal Household of the United Kingdom
  • William Fergusson - 1840-1877 Surgeon, introduced practice of conservative amputation
  • David Ferrier - 1871-1908 Pioneering experimental neurologist
  • Joseph Lister - 1887-1893 Pioneer of antiseptic surgery
  • Victor Negus - 1887-1974 Laryngologist and comparative anatomist

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