James Learmonth Gowans

Sir James Learmonth Gowans,  (7 May 1924 – 1 April 2020)Gowans was a British physician and immunologist. 

In 1945 while studying medicine at King's College Hospital, he assisted at the liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camp as a voluntary medical student. Gowans was born in Sheffield, England. In 1963 Gowans became a Fellow of the Royal Society. He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1971 New Year Honours. He won the Royal Medal in 1976. He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 1991.

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