About Alexander Stuart
Lived 1673 – 1742 (aged 68–69). Alexander Stuart was a physician, physicist, philosopher and physiologist.
Alexander Stuart FRS FRCP (1673 - 15 September 1742) was a British natural philosopher and physician.
Personal life Born in Aberdeen, Scotland Stuart graduated from Marischal College, University of Aberdeen, in 1691 with an MA and became a ship's surgeon, serving on the London from 1701 to 1704 and on the Europe from 1704 to 1707.
In 1738 he gave the first Croonian Lecture of the Royal Society, and in 1740 he was awarded the Copley Medal by the same institution. He delivered the Croonian Lecture again in 1740.
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British scientist
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Alexander Stuart was born in 1673 in Aberdeen.
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Alexander Stuart died in 1742 in London.
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Alexander Stuart was a physician, physicist, philosopher and physiologist.
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