Charles Smart Roy was a British professor of pathology who worked at the University of Cambridge.
Occupation
pathologist
Citizenship
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Born
January 21, 1854
Died
October 4, 1897
Overview
Charles Smart Roy (21 January 1854 - 4 October 1897) was a British professor of pathology who worked at the University of Cambridge.
Roy was born at Arbroath, Forfarshire to Adam Roy, a shipowner. His early education was at his birthplace of Arbroath and later at St. Andrews. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, graduating with distinction in 1875 and joining as a Resident Physician at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
He moved to the Brown Institution in London to conduct research in the physiological aspects of pleuro-pneumonia. During the Turko-Serbian war of 1876 he was in charge of a hospital at Janina in Turkey. After the war he went to Berlin to study under Emil du Bois-Reymond and Rudolf Virchow working on aspects of heart physiology. He obtained an M.D. from Edinburgh with a gold medal. He was invited to the Strasburg Physiological Institute where he worked with F.L. Goltz on blood circulation before moving to Leipzig in 1879 where he worked under Julius Cohnheim.
In 1880 he moved to Cambridge as George Henry Lewes' student, working in the laboratory of Dr. Michael Foster. He taught advanced physiology to students. He succeeded Dr W.S. Greenfield as the director of the Brown Institution.
