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John Michael Newsom-Davis CBE, FRCP, FRS, 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.〔 (obituary) 〕 Regarded as "one of the most distinguished clinical neurologists and medical scientists of his generation,"〔(obituary) 〕 he died in a car accident in Adjud, Romania, having visited a neurological clinic in Bucharest earlier the same day.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 MGFA Mourns passing of John Newsom-Davis, CBE, FRS ) 〕 〔 〕 == Early life and family == John Newsom-Davis was born in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, the eldest child and only son of Kenneth Newsom-Davis, the managing director of the Davis Gas Cooker Company, and his wife Eileen, a doctor's daughter. He had a twin sister, Julia. He was educated at Sherborne and Pembroke College, Cambridge. During his two years national service in the RAF (1951–53), he qualified for full pilot training, and learned to fly Meteor jet fighters.〔 In 1963 he married Rosemary Elizabeth Schmid, an English Swiss, who later became an educational psychologist, working in child development.〔 They had two daughters and a son, and (at the date of his death) seven grandchildren.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Newsom-Davis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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