Josiah Clark Nott (1804–73)

American physician and racial theorist. Practised medicine in Columbia, South Carolina, 1829–35; in Mobile, Alabama, 1836–57. Professor of anatomy, University of Louisiana, 1857–8. Helped to found a medical school in Mobile in 1859 and was appointed professor of surgery. Wrote extensively on scientific subjects including yellow fever, surgery, hypnotism, and ethnology.