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Dermatologists Who Have Been Knighted by the Kings and Queens of England
By Leonard J Hoenig1, Uwe Wollina2, Nick J Levell3
1Private Practice, Pembroke Pines, Florida, USA.
Abstract:
This contribution highlights the biographies of 12 physicians, 11 of whom were dermatologists, knighted by British monarchs over the past 150 years. They are: William JamesErasmus Wilson (1809-1884), Dyce Duckworth (1840-1928), Thomas McCall Anderson (1836-1908), Jonathan Hutchinson (1828-1913), Malcolm Morris (1849-1924), James Galloway (1862-1922), Aldo Castellani (1874-1971), Humphrey Rolleston (1862-1944), Norman Purvis Walker (1862-1942), Robert Bolam (1871-1939), Ernest Graham-Little (1867-1950), and Archibald M. H. Gray (1880-1967). We also highlight the lives of two physicians honored as members of the Order of the British Empire: Nigel Vincent Delahunty Bunker (1927-1967) and dermatologist Nick J. Levell, as well as Nigel's son, the noted dermatologist Christopher B. Bunker, who was awarded the 2019 Sir Archibald Gray Prize and Medal for outstanding work in dermatology.
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