William Gowers

William Gowers

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GenderMale
Birthday20 March 1845
Died4 May 1915 (age 70)
Place of birthHackney, London, England, UK
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Biography

Sir William Richard Gowers FRS was a British neurologist, described by Macdonald Critchley in 1949 as "probably the greatest clinical neurologist of all time". He practised at the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptics, Queen Square, London (now the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery) from 1870–1910.