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Authorised form of nameBudd; William (1811 - 1880)
Dates1811 - 1880
NationalityBritish
Place of birthNorth Tawton, Devon, England
Date of birth11 or 14 September 1811
Place of deathClevedon, Somerset
Date of death09 January 1880
OccupationPhysician
Research fieldMedicine
Epidemiology
ActivityEducation:
London; Edinburgh; College de France and Ecole de Medecine, Paris. MD (1838, Edinburgh)
Career:
Assisted his father in practice, North Tawton; began to study the origin and transmission of typhoid fever (1839); moved to Bristol (1842); Physician, Bristol Royal Infirmary (1847); had a large practice and continued to research infectious diseases; retired due to ill health
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election08/06/1871
RelationshipsYounger brother of George Budd (FRS 1836)
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB
Notes:
DSB gives birth date as 14 September 1811
CodeNA6403
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1871/02Budd, William: certificate of election to the Royal Society
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