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Who was... Almroth Wright?

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Sir Almroth Edward Wright CB MD FRS (1861-1947) was Britains first academic immunologist. He was qualified in both Arts and Medicine and commenced his professional life as a Physiologist, became Professor of Pathology and led the study of immunity to infectious diseases. He was often a controversial scientist and not always right in his views, hence his nickname 'Sir Almost Right'!

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Francis Diggins. 2002. Who was... Almroth Wright?. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12486306/

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