John Michael Newsom-Davis CBE FRS FRCP FMedSci (18 October 1932 – 24 August 2007) was a neurologist who played an important role in the discovery of the causes of, and treatments for, Myasthenia gravis, and of other diseases of the nerve-muscle junction, notably Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome and acquired neuromyotonia. Regarded as "one of the most distinguished clinical neurologists and medical scientists of his generation," he died in a car accident in Adjud, Romania, having visited a neurological clinic in Bucharest earlier the same day.
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18 October 1932 Harpenden, Hertfordshire
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Died |
24 August 2007 (aged 74)
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Zodiac | Libra |
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