William Rutherford (1839–99)

Scottish physiologist. Professor of physiology, King’s College, London, 1869. Fullerian Professor of physiology, Royal Institution of Great Britain, 1871. Professor of physiology, Edinburgh University, 1874–99. Co-editor of Journal of Anatomy and Physiology, 1875–6, and Journal of Physiology, 1878. FRS, Edinburgh, 1869; FRS 1876.