Education
He graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1931 and was appointed William Withering Chair in Medicine at the University of Birmingham in 1946.
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Melville Arnott
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Career
He served in the Royal Army Medical Corps during the Second World War, and was one of the first medical officers to enter Bergen-Belsen concentration camp at the end of the war in Europe. He was awarded the in the King"s 1940 Birthday Honours. He played a major role in the Nuffield Foundation"s Planning Committee (1957-1959) that established a new medical school at the then University of Rhodesia, now the University of Zimbabwe.
Arnott was knighted in 1971.
