People

Professor Alexander Adam

Orthopaedic Surgeon and Medical Historian

Popular Deeside doctor and classical scholar.

(1899 – 1986)

First Woman to chair the NE Regional Hospital Board

Founding Father of Nutrition Science; Nobel Peace Prize (1880 – 1971)

Professor of Bacteriology, London University

19 August 1868

– 11 February 1941

Founder and first President of the London School of Tropical Medicine. Medical Adviser to the first President of the Republic of China, Sun Yat Sen

17 January 1851

– 28 May 1926

Chief Scientist NHS Scotland

Academic Bacteriologist, becoming the first Director of the Central Public Health Laboratory in Colindale, London