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Joshua Harold Burn

(1892-1981), Pharmacologist

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Joshua Harold Burn, by Walter Stoneman - NPG x165015

Joshua Harold Burn

by Walter Stoneman
bromide print, April 1943
NPG x165015

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Joshua Harold Burn

by Walter Stoneman
negative, April 1943
NPG x164994

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Joshua Harold Burn

by Walter Stoneman
negative, April 1943
NPG x164995

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Dr Katherine Burn

13 August 2016, 12:01

Professor Joshua Harold Burn was the second Professor of Pharmacology in Oxford appointed in 1937 until 1959. He had six children and seventeen grandchildren. He became an FRS and trained future pharmacology professors from all over the world including Sri Lanka. His most prestigious student was Sir John Robert Vane who found the link between aspirin and platelet stickiness which has prevented millions of heart attacks and for which Sir John Vane won a Nobel prize. .