Kenneth Walton

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1919 – 2008

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Who was Kenneth Walton?

Major Kenneth Walter William Henry Walton FRCP was a leading British experimental pathologist and rheumatologist. He published over 160 papers during his lifetime and was a member of 18 learned societies. One of the pathologists who helped form the current scientific era within his field, his death was described as 'the end of an earlier period of British rheumatology', and papers of his from the 1960s continue to be academically cited.

He was born in Lahore and attended school in Highgate, being accepted into University College London to study Medicine, which he followed up with time spent at University College Hospital under Roy Cameron. During World War II he initially tended to victims of The Blitz before being called up in 1943, he was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps on 21 November. He spent time as a medical officer with infantry units stationed in England before being transferred to the East Asian theatre, serving as assistant director of pathology in Hong Kong. He was demobilised in 1947 and returned to UCH, but quickly transferred to University of Birmingham in England.

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Born
Sep 6, 1919
Nationality
  • United Kingdom
Education
  • University College London
Died
Apr 26, 2008

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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