William Osler, 1st baronet (1849–1919)

Canadian physician and reformer of medical education. MD, McGill, 1872; professor of medicine, 1874; registrar of the medical school, 1877. Trained in John Scott Burdon Sanderson’s laboratory at University College, London, 1872–3; studied pathology in Berlin and Vienna, 1873–4. Professor of clinical medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, 1884. Physician-in-chief and founder of the medical school at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, 1889–1905; regius professor of medicine, Oxford University, 1905. Created baronet, 1911. FRS, 1898.