Banting, Sir Frederick Grant (1891–1941), physician and medical researcher, was born near the town of Alliston, Ontario, Canada, on 14 November 1891, the fourth son and fifth and youngest child of William Thompson Banting (1849–1929), a farmer of Irish descent, and his wife, ...
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Brown, (William) Michael Court (1918–1968), medical research worker, was born at Scotby, near Carlisle, on 17 April 1918, the only son of James Court Brown, market gardener, and his wife, Jessie Buchanan Hayes. He was educated at Fettes College, Edinburgh, and St Andrews University...
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Sir James Mackenzie (1853–1925) by unknown photographer © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Mackenzie, Sir James (1853–1925), physician and medical researcher, was the second son and one of the seven children of Robert Mackenzie (1816–1898), a farmer, and his wife, Jean Campbell Menzies (d. 1892). He was born at his father's farm of Pictstonhill at ...
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Race, Robert Russell (1907–1984), geneticist and serologist, was born on 28 November 1907 at Hull, the eldest of the three sons (there were no daughters) of Joseph Dawson Race, a banker, and his wife, May, daughter of Robert Tweddle, a sanitary engineer of ...
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Rotblat, Sir Joseph (1908–2005), scientist and peace activist, was born Jósef Rotblat on 4 November 1908 in Warsaw, the eldest of five surviving children (two others died in infancy) of Zygmunt, otherwise Zelman, Rotblat, the owner of a haulage company specializing in the paper trade, and his wife, ...
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Sir Joseph Rotblat (1908–2005) by Dominick Tyler, 1995 © Dominick Tyler
