William Turner (anatomist)

Sir William Turner ( born January 7, 1832 in Lancaster, † February 15, 1916 in Edinburgh ) was a British anatomist.

Life

William Turner studied in the years 1850-1854 in London medicine. In Edinburgh, he took over the office of a demonstrator of anatomy at the university there. Overall, he was 62 years at the University of Edinburgh since 1862 as professor of anatomy. From 1903 until his death in 1916 he was rector of the university.

Turner was interested in several medical specialties. Although most of his more than 200 scientific publications related to the descriptive anatomy, comparative anatomy and anthropology, his scientific studies also extended to the fields of physiology, pathology and histology.

His main work was the Atlas and Textbook of Human Anatomy and Physiology.

William Turner was raised in the non- hereditary knighthood and recorded on August 17, 1912 in the Order Pour le Mérite as a foreign member. From 1908 to 1913 he was serving as the president of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Tuner was also a member of the Royal Society.