Henry Pemberton ( 1694 - 1771 )

Birth: London, England (1694) Death: London (09 March 1771) Research Field: Physics, mathematics, physiology, medicine Profession: Physician Education: Paris; St Thomas's Hospital, London; Leyden; MD (1719); Cambridge; MD (Com Reg 1728) Career: Practised little, owing to ill health; friend of Sir Isaac Newton (FRS 1672), the 3rd edition of whose 'Principia' he prepared for the press; Professor of Physic, Gresham College, London (1728); prepared the fifth 'London Pharmacopoeia' for the Royal College of Physicians (1746) Membership: Fellow Election Date: 30/11/1720 Proposers: Edmond Halley; Richard Mead Council: 1724, 1726.