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William Harvey (1 April 1578 – 3 June 1657) [1] was an English physician who made influential contributions to anatomy and physiology. [2] He was the first known physician to describe completely, and in detail, pulmonary and systemic circulation as well as the specific process of blood being pumped to the brain and the rest of the body by the heart (though earlier writers, such as Realdo ...
William Robert Harvey (born January 29, 1941, Brewton, Alabama) [1] is an American educator, academic administrator, and businessman who served as president of Hampton University from 1978 to 2022. [2] He is the longest serving president in the school's history.
An experiment from Harvey's Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus. Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus (Latin, 'An Anatomical Exercise on the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Living Beings'), commonly called De Motu Cordis, is the best-known work of the physician William Harvey, which was first published in 1628 and established the ...
William Harvey visited Scotland in his role as physician to King Charles I in 1633 and 1641. [3] During the first visit, he was granted the Freedom of the City of Edinburgh and was made an honorary member of the Incorporation of Surgeons (which later became the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh).
The Royal College of Physicians of London holds an annual lecture established by William Harvey in 1656 called the Harveian Oration. The Harveian Society of Edinburgh was founded in 1782 by Dr Andrew Duncan. [9] [10] The Society holds an annual Festival in honour of Harvey. The President of the Society delivers the Harveian Oration, followed by ...
The Dr. William R. Harvey Museum of Art is an art museum at Talladega College in Talladega, Alabama in the United States. The museum, which is named after donor and alumni William R. Harvey, includes the Amistad Mutiny murals by Hale Woodruff. The ribbon cutting at the Dr. William R. Harvey Museum of Art in January 2020.
Members of the club personify William Harvey, as a physician scientist, by using the appellation “Harvey”, when addressing each other at meetings. The gavel used at meetings is made of wood from Harvey House in Folkestone, Kent. A toast to William Harvey is given at the club’s annual Harvey Oration dinner on April 1, Harvey's birthday.
Harvey Williams Cushing (April 8, 1869 – October 7, 1939) was an American neurosurgeon, pathologist, writer, and draftsman. A pioneer of brain surgery, he was the first exclusive neurosurgeon and the first person to describe Cushing's disease .