Discoverer of clotting factor XII and of the sequence of reactions in blood clotting
doi:10.1136/bmj.a606
PMCID: PMC2443583
Gynaecologist who became a QC and expert on medical negligence
doi:10.1136/bmj.a476
PMCID: PMC2440894
Outstanding teacher and mentor in cardiology
doi:10.1136/bmj.a293
PMCID: PMC2427127
Inventor and philanthropist
doi:10.1136/bmj.a250
PMCID: PMC2413380
Paediatrician specialising in multiple births who wrote objectively about her family’s oncogene
doi:10.1136/bmj.39563.669225.BE
PMCID: PMC2364852
Expert in peripheral neuropathy
doi:10.1136/bmj.39520.589653.BE
PMCID: PMC2270961
Pioneer academic neurosurgeon and world expert on brain damage prognosis
doi:10.1136/bmj.39500.632384.BE
PMCID: PMC2258384
Cofounder of Action on Smoking and Health and the Coronary Prevention Group
doi:10.1136/bmj.39495.657616.BE
PMCID: PMC2249670
Pharmacologist who unravelled genetic response to drugs and the effect of drugs on the eye
doi:10.1136/bmj.39468.286539.BE
PMCID: PMC2213860
Geneticist who recognised trisomy 18 (Edwards’ syndrome) and the usefulness of chorionic villus sampling
doi:10.1136/bmj.39423.632292.BE
PMCID: PMC2137084
doi:10.1136/bmj.39372.574502.BE
PMCID: PMC2043451
Enabled the understanding and treatment of myasthenia gravis
doi:10.1136/bmj.39358.519248.BE
PMCID: PMC2034707
Immunologist who realised that cord blood stem cells could be used for lifesaving transplants and discovered the subtypes of T cells
doi:10.1136/bmj.39325.496030.BE
PMCID: PMC1971189
Expert on hospital infection and distinguished poet
doi:10.1136/bmj.39301.575081.BE
PMCID: PMC1949431
Promising renal researcher
doi:10.1136/bmj.39295.554792.BE
PMCID: PMC1941846
Toxicologist who strove for patients and the public understanding of science
doi:10.1136/bmj.39259.615382.BE
PMCID: PMC1910687
Founder of the Institute of Psychosexual Medicine
doi:10.1136/bmj.39246.488044.BE
PMCID: PMC1895684
Leading British malariologist
doi:10.1136/bmj.39213.553843.BE
PMCID: PMC1871768
Haematologist who performed Britain's first successful leukaemia and lymphoma chemotherapy
doi:10.1136/bmj.39125.732188.FA
PMCID: PMC1832031
Psychiatrist who defined anorexia nervosa
doi:10.1136/bmj.39125.617153.FA
PMCID: PMC1819548
Pioneer of metabolic studies of heart disease and founder of an institute
doi:10.1136/bmj.39125.710926.FA
PMCID: PMC1804168
Pioneered the first successful bone marrow transplants in children with primary immunodeficiency and became a fearless university administrator
doi:10.1136/bmj.39108.594352.FA
PMCID: PMC1790753
Neurologist who refined the diagnosis and understanding of multiple sclerosis
doi:10.1136/bmj.39097.535093.FA
PMCID: PMC1779860
Pioneer of unrelated bone marrow transplantation for childhood leukaemia
doi:10.1136/bmj.39069.681169.FA
PMCID: PMC1764085
Founding father of intensive care and hero of the 1952 Copenhagen polio epidemic
doi:10.1136/bmj.39344.561250.BE
PMCID: PMC1995525
