Terence Cuthbert Anthony O’Neill was a dental surgeon from Rotherham Yorkshire.

Sir Michael Rawlins was professor of clinical pharmacology at Newcastle University and the founding chair of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email li

Gustav Victor Born (Gus) was a pharmacologist whose work revolutionized the study of blood platelets and paved the way for modern antiplatelet therapy. Born on 29 July 1921 in Gottingen, Germany, he was the only son of Max Born, the director and professor of theoretical physics at the University of

Henry Hallett Dale was born in London on 9 June 1875 and educated at the Leys School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He got a first-class in the Natural Science Tripos and spent two years doing research in the physiology laboratory under Langley before proceeding to St Bartholomew's hospital for his

John Vane shared the Nobel prize in 1982 with Bergström and Samuelsson for discovering how aspirin works, based on the research he had carried out at the Institute of Basic Medical Sciences in our College, where he was successively senior lecturer, reader and then professor between 1955 and 1973. B

Arthur Koch was born in Colombo on 20 November 1903 into a family distinguished for public service in Ceylon. He was educated at the Royal College, Colombo, and in 1922 entered the Ceylon Medical College where he had an outstanding undergraduate career, winning 5 medals in the course of study for th

Sir James Black was a leading physiologist and pharmacologist whose development of drugs to block beta receptors in the heart and histamine receptors in the gastro-intestinal tract led to a revolution in the treatment of patients with heart disease and ulcers. He was awarded a Nobel prize for his wo