James Young Simpson (scientist)
James Young Simpson , M.A., D.Sc. , F.R.S.E, F.S.A. , F.R.A.I., Hon. Jur. D. , Hon. Sc.D. Middlebury College, U.S.A. He was a Professor of Natural Science, writer, diplomat, biographer and theologian.
James Y. Simpson was born in Edinburgh onAugust 1873. His father was Sir Alexander Russell Simpson , professor of midwifery at Edinburgh University and his mother was Margaret Stewart Barbour. His father was the nephew of his namesake, James Young Simpson, the famous discoverer of chloroform and its use as an anaesthetic. He was educated at George Watsons College, Edinburgh and at University of Edinburgh which he attended from 1891 to 1894 when he graduated M.A. He graduated D.Sc., by thesis in 1899 after two summers as a research student at Christs College, Cambridge. He married Helen Huntington Day of Indianapolis, U.S.A., and died onMay 1934 in Edinburgh.
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