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The Fife Science Festival

Professors, suffragettes, life savers, and forward-thinkers— Fife’s biologists, physicians and chemists were and are responsible for many advances in the fields of biology and medicine.

Current research by staff at the new University of St Andrews Medical building are well equipped to continue to influence the course of medicine. Scientists from St Andrews and Dundee just secured a £1M grant to research applications with lasers to deliver drugs to cells, which will contribute to stem cell research and to developments in agriculture. Read more here.

St Andrews alumnus Edward Jenner is mocked for using cowpox to inoculate against smallpox.

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Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson CB FRS FRSE

Smyth discovered a method for the prevention of contagion in cases of fever using nitrous acid gas, and wrote several treatises on this subject and on other medical matters. Served George III as one of his physicians.

James Carmichael Smyth FRS

Professor of Medicine at St Andrews, 3 May 1841 to 30 July 1849.

· Died 30 July 1849, St Andrews

Sir Robert Sibbald

Admitted to the Royal College of Physicians in 1681, Sibbald was a physician, naturalist and Geographer Royal of Scotland. Knighted by  Charles II for his contributions to botany. He began to write histories of Scottish counties. His History of Fife (1710) remains of interest. The Statistical Accounts of Scotland proceeded from where he stopped.

Pettigrew was last occupant of the Chandos chair of medicine and anatomy, as it was renamed after his death. He published numerous books on anatomy and biology, including Animal Locomotion (1874) and  Design in Nature (1908). The Bell Pettigrew Museum at the University of St Andrews was named in his honour.

James Bell Pettigrew, FRS

· 26 May 1832 - 30 Jan 1908, University of St Andrews Professor

Raffaelli is the Surgeon General of the British Armed Forces. In 2005 he was appointed as an Honorary Physician to the Queen. He is also a Governor of the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, and an appointee to the court of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

Surgeon Vice-Admiral Philip Iain Raffaelli QHP RCP

· Born 24 Nov 1955 in Kirkcaldy

Dr John Reid

· Died 30 July 1849, St Andrews

· Died 30 July 1849, St Andrews

Arthur Thomas Masterman, FRS

Masterman was a zoologist who wrote the Elementary Textbook on Zoology (1901)  and co-wrote with William Carmichael McIntosh (q.v), The Life-Histories of the British Marine Food Fishes (1897). He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1915. His portrait is in the National Portrait Gallery in London.

· 1869-1941, University of St Andrews alumnus, research fellow then lecturer

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Professor William Carmichael M’Intosh, FRS

M’Intosh co-wrote with Arthur Masterman (q.v), The Life-Histories of the British Marine Food Fishes (1897). He was director of the University of St Andrews Museum and the Gatty Marine Laboratory. He was influential in founding a modern medical school at St Andrews and in creating a botanic garden there. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1877.

· 1838-1931, University of St Andrews alumnus & Professor, born in St Andrews