caption death_date image_size nationality field work_institutions birth_date known_for article_title name
sir david wilkie 1938 150px united kingdom medicine university of edinburgh 1882 surgery david wilkie -lrb- surgeon -rrb-
 sir david wilkie
david wilkie -lrb- surgeon -rrb-

sir david wilkie -lrb- 1882 -- 1938 -rrb- was among the first of the new breed of professors of surgery appointed at a relatively young age to develop surgical research and undergraduate teaching .
at the university of edinburgh , he established a surgical research laboratory from which was to emerge a cohort of young surgical researchers destined to become the largest dynasty of surgical professors yet seen in the british isles .
he is widely regarded as the father of british academic surgery .
