What is James Learmonth Gowans?
[[File:Group photo of London Medical students who went to Belsen Wellcome L0029073.jpg|thumb|Group photo of London Medical students who went to Belsen]] '''Sir James Learmonth Gowans''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR|sep=,|CBE|FRS|FRCP}} (7 May 1924 &ndash; 1 April 2020)<ref>[http://epaper.thetimes.co.uk/epaper/viewer.aspx Gowans]</ref> was a British [[physician]] and [[immunologist]]. In 1945 while studying medicine at [[King's College Hospital]], he assisted at the liberated [[Bergen-Belsen concentration camp]] as a [[London medical students at Belsen|voluntary medical student]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/online/modern/gowans-james/gowans-james.html|title=Archive of Sir James Gowans|website=www.bodley.ox.ac.uk|access-date=24 September 2019|archive-date=10 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191010234637/http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/online/modern/gowans-james/gowans-james.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Gowans was born in [[Sheffield]], England. In 1963 Gowans became a [[Fellow of the Royal Society]]. He was appointed a [[Order of the British Empire|Commander of the Order of the British Empire]] in the [[1971 New Year Honours]]. He won the [[Royal Medal]] in 1976.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nndb.com/honors/968/000100668/|title=Royal Medal|access-date=2008-12-06}}</ref> He was elected a member of the [[Academia Europaea]] in 1991.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Gowans_James |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190328104806/https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Gowans_James |title=James Gowans|publisher=Academia Europaea |archive-date=28 March 2019}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Gowans, James Learmonth}} [[Category:1924 births]] [[Category:2020 deaths]] [[Category:Members of Academia Europaea]] [[Category:People from Sheffield]] {{bio-stub}} [[Category:English physicians]]