Robert Knox
1791–1862
Anatomist and ethnologist. MD, Edinburgh, 1814. Assistant surgeon in the army, 1815–20. Conservator of the museum of comparative anatomy and pathology, Edinburgh College of Surgeons, 1825–31, and anatomical lecturer in Edinburgh.
Sources
DSB
ODNB.
Bibliography
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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