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Joseph Morley Drake
Joseph Morley Drake (1828-1886) was a British doctor and educator. Drake studied chemistry at the London Polytechnic Institute, graduation as an analytical chemist in 1845. That same year, he migrated to Canada, where he worked as a pharmacist. Deciding to retrain in medicine, he studied at McGill University Faculty of Medicine, graduating with honours in 1861 and finding immediate employment as House Surgeon at Montreal General Hospital. He became a Professor of Clinical Medicine at his ''alma mater'' in 1868, and was appointed Chair of Physiology there four years later. Resigning in 1874 due to heart trouble, Drake was appointed Emeritus Professor of Medicine, and after his death in 1886 his heirs established the Joseph Morley Drake Chair of Physiology in his honour. Thomas Wesley Mills Thomas Wesley Mills (1847–1915), generally referred to as T. Wesley Mills in the scientific literature, was a Canadian physician and physiologist who worked as a professor at McGill Universit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London Polytechnic
, mottoeng = The Lord is our Strength , type = Public , established = 1838: Royal Polytechnic Institution 1891: Polytechnic-Regent Street 1970: Polytechnic of Central London 1992: University of Westminster , endowment = £5.1 million , budget = £205.1 million , chancellor = Lady Sorrell , vice_chancellor = Peter Bonfield , students = () , undergrad = () , postgrad = () , city = London , country = United Kingdom , colours = Royal blue, Fuchsia , website www.westminster.ac.uk, logo = Navbar-westminster-logo.svg , affiliations = The University of Westminster is a public university based in London, United Kingdom. Founded in 1838 as the Royal Polytechnic Institution, it was the first polytechnic to open in London. The Polytechnic formally received a Royal charter in August 1839, and became the University of Westminster in 1992. Westminster has its main campus in Regent Street in central London, with additional campuses in Fitzrovia, Marylebone a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
