| Authorised form of name | Cruickshank; William (- ? 1811) |
| Dates | - ? 1811 |
| Place of birth | North-east Scotland |
| Place of death | Scotland |
| Date of death | 1810 or 1811 |
| Research field | Clinical chemistry |
| Activity | Career:
Dipl.RCS (England) 1780; Ordinance Chemist and Lecturer in Chemistry, Royal Artillery Academy, Woolwich (1795); Surgeon of Artillery, Surgeon to the Ordinance Medical Department
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 24/06/1802 |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll
References:
John H Appleby, 'Sir Alexander Crichton, FRS (1763-1856), Imperial Russian Physician at Large' in NR 1999 vol 53 pp 219-230, plate
Guy H Neild, 'William Cruickshank (FRS-1802): Clinical Chemist' in Nephrol Dial Transplant (1996) 11: 1885-1889
Notes:
Birth place info inferred from the entries in the International Genealogical Index listing several men of the correct name spelling born in the counties of Aberdeen and Angus during the 1740s and 1750s. Possible death year of 1810 |
| Code | NA7631 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| L&P/6/186 | Paper, 'Experiments on the nerves of living animals' by William Cruickshank | 1776 |
| EC/1802/04 | Cruickshank, William: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| AP/19/16/1 | Unpublished manuscript, 'On the ova of woman and the mammiferous animals as they exist in the ovaries before impregnation, and on the discovery in them of a vesicle, analogous to that described by Professor Purkinje in the immature egg of the bird' by Thomas Wharton Jones | 1835 |
| AP/19/16 | Unpublished paper, 'On the ova of woman and the mammiferous animals as they exist in the ovaries before impregnation, and on the discovery in them of a vesicle, analogous to that described by Professor Purkinje in the immature egg of the bird' by Thomas Wharton Jones | 1835 |