William Withering
✓ Source-basedfallingEnglish scientist (1741-1799)
ScientistsLived 1741 to 1799 · aged 58
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William Withering FRS was an English botanist, geologist, chemist, physician and first systematic investigator of the bioactivity of digitalis.
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Edgbaston Hall
Illustration from An Account of the Foxglove
Pocket microscope by Withering
"William Withering and Mother Hutton"; illustration by William Meade Prince (1928)
Withering analysing thermal waters at Caldas da Rainha
William Withering's memorial plaque inside St Bartholomew's Church, Edgbaston
Blue plaque at Edgbaston HallAwards 1
Scientists born in the 1740s 6
About this person
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Scientists
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Scientist
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deceased
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Lived 1741 to 1799 · aged 58
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