What is David Weatherall?
[[File:Jeremy_Farrar_and_David_Weatherall_at_RILD_launch_(14425802043).jpg|right|200px]] '''Sir David John Weatherall''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR|sep=,|GBE|FRS}} (9 March 1933 – 8 December 2018) was a British physician and researcher in [[molecular genetics]], [[haematology]], [[pathology]] and [[clinical medicine]].<ref>{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)61689-4| title = Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 291 diseases and injuries in 21 regions, 1990–2010: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010| journal = The Lancet| volume = 380| issue = 9859| pages = 2197–223| year = 2012| last1 = Murray | first1 = C. J. L. | last2 = Vos | first2 = T. | last3 = Lozano | first3 = R. | last4 = Naghavi | first4 = M. | last5 = Flaxman | first5 = A. D. | last6 = Michaud | first6 = C. | last7 = Ezzati | first7 = M. | last8 = Shibuya | first8 = K. | last9 = Salomon | first9 = J. A. | last10 = Abdalla | first10 = S. | last11 = Aboyans | first11 = V. | last12 = Abraham | first12 = J. | last13 = Ackerman | first13 = I. | last14 = Aggarwal | first14 = R. | last15 = Ahn | first15 = S. Y. | last16 = Ali | first16 = M. K. | last17 = Almazroa | first17 = M. A. | last18 = Alvarado | first18 = M. | last19 = Anderson | first19 = H. R. | last20 = Anderson | first20 = L. M. | last21 = Andrews | first21 = K. G. | last22 = Atkinson | first22 = C. | last23 = Baddour | first23 = L. M. | last24 = Bahalim | first24 = A. N. | last25 = Barker-Collo | first25 = S. | last26 = Barrero | first26 = L. H. | last27 = Bartels | first27 = D. H. | last28 = Basáñez | first28 = M. G. | last29 = Baxter | first29 = A. | last30 = Bell | first30 = M. L. | display-authors = 29 | pmid=23245608| s2cid = 205967479}}</ref> In 1974 Weatherall was appointed Nuffield Professor of Clinical Medicine at the [[University of Oxford]], and, in 1992, he assumed the most prestigious chair, that of [[Regius Professor of Medicine (Oxford)|Regius Professor of Medicine]], which he held until 2000. He was [[Knight Bachelor|knighted]] in 1987