John Arbuthnott (microbiologist)
Sir John Peebles Arbuthnott, PPRSE, FRCPSG, FMedSci, FRCPath was a Scottish microbiologist who was Principal of the University of Strathclyde. He succeeded Lord Wilson of Tillyorn as President of The Royal Society of Edinburgh in October 2011 and was succeeded by Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell in October 2014. John Arbuthnott, Scottish microbiologist and academic (d. 2023)
8 April 1939
Born on the same birth date (8 April 1939): Manolis Angelopoulos • Martin J. Schreiber • Trina Schart Hyman
Born on the same birth day (8 April): Albert I of Belgium • Alec Stewart • Andrew Irvine (mountaineer) • August Wilhelm von Hofmann • Carlos Deltour • Catfish Hunter • Dionysios Solomos • Evans Rutto • Frédérick Bousquet • Geir Haarde • Grzegorz Lato • Henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney • Jeff McNeil • Jeremy Hellickson • Marie Byles • Mark Blundell • Ofer Shechter • Ollie Mitchell • Renzo De Felice • Taylor Kitsch • Toutai Kefu
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