William Bulloch (1868-1941) was a British bacteriologist later notable for his history of the science. He graduated from the University of Aberdeen, which he attended between 1884-90. Following post-graduate study at Leipzig and Vienna, he earned an MD from Aberdeen in 1894. From 1894-95, he worked in London, Paris and Copenhagen. In 1895 he became Chief of Bacteriology at the British Institute for Preventive Medicine, where he worked in the antitoxin laboratory. In 1897 Bulloch was appointed Lecturer in Bacteriology at the London Hospital; in 1917 he became the Goldsmith's Professor of Bacteriology of the University of London. In 1913, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1938, he published The History of Bacteriology, the historical work for which he is chiefly known.
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