Walter Ernest Dixon


Walter Ernest Dixon FRS was a British pharmacologist.
He was born in Darlington, County Durham and educated at school in Darlington and at Dulwich, gaining a Science Entrance Scholarship to St. Thomas's Hospital in 1890. He later obtained degrees from both London University and Cambridge University. He became a house physician and then a Demonstrator at St. Thomas's in the Department of Physiology. He was also appointed to Lecturership in Pharmacology at Cambridge University, where he resided, going up to London to King's College, London to deliver his lectures, where he held the post of Professor of Materia Medica and Pharmacology. In 1919 he was appointed Reader in Pharmacology at Cambridge.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1911. His candidacy citation read: "''Professor of Pharmacology. Distinguished as a pharmacologist. Professor of Pharmacology, King's College, London. Assistant to the Downing Professor of Medicine, Cambridge.
He was awarded OBE in 1919 for his contributions during World War I. He died in Whittlesford, Cambridgeshire in 1931.

Publications

His publications cited for his candidacy for FRS in 1911 included: