Tag: Emmanuel College
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Alfred Skirrow Robinson: The colorful life of a Roaring Twenties surgeon
Stephen MartinDurham, UK & Thailand In 1926 my grandfather started work for Dr. A.S. Robinson in Redcar, a small town on the Yorkshire coast. The doctor needed a driver—at least that was the plan at first. He sent him for a fortnight to the Rolls Royce School of Motoring at Hendon, on the old Handley-Page…
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Thomas Young MD FRS (1773-1829): “The Last Man Who Knew Everything.”
JMS PearceEast Yorks, UK It is impossible to place precisely Thomas Young (Fig 1) into any professional class. He was both physician and scientist, renowned for an astonishing range of theories and discoveries in optics, physics, physiology, hieroglyphics, and medicine. His sundry contributions were profound, original, and ingenious; he has with good reason been likened…