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William Rutherford was born at Ancrum in Roxburghshire.
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William Rutherford was born at Ancrum in Roxburghshire.
University of Edinburgh.
He was Fullerian Professor of Physiology and Comparative Anatomy from 1872-1875. After studying in Berlin, Vienna, and Paris, he became assistant to John Hughes Bennett, Professor of Physiology at Edinburgh. After the Edinburgh anatomist John Goodsir told Rutherford about the new experimental physiology in Germany, William Rutherford and the ophthalmologist Argyll Robertson at Edinburgh became the first in the United Kingdom to introduce the new experimental apparatus of Hermann von Helmholtz, Emil du Bois-Reymond and Carl Ludwig.
In 1869 Rutherford became Assistant
Professor of Physiology at King"s College, London. In 1871 he was appointed Professor of Physiology at the Royal Institution In 1874 he returned to Edinburgh University to succeed Bennett as Professor of Physiology there.
Rutherford lectured at the University of Edinburgh when Arthur Conan Doyle studied medicine there. Like his fictional character Sherlock Holmes, who was based on a real person, Conan Doyle"s Professor Challenger was based on Rutherford.
He died 21 February 1899 at 114 Douglas Crescent, Edinburgh and his body was buried at Ancrum.
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Royal Society.