William Charles Wells
1757–1817
American-born physician. Born in South Carolina, of Scottish parents, and educated in Scotland, 1768–71. Elected assistant physician to St Thomas’s Hospital, London, 1795; physician, 1800–17. Awarded the Rumford Medal of the Royal Society for his "Essay on dew" (1814). Wrote An account of a female of the white race of mankind, part of whose skin resembles that of a negro (1818), which has been thought to anticipate CD’s theory. FRS 1793.
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ODNB.
Bibliography
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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