Sidney Harris Cox MartinFRCPFRS (8 April 1860,
Jamaica – 22 September 1924) was a British physiological chemist, physician, and medical school professor.
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Biography
Sidney Martin was the second son of John Ewers Martin (1826–1893), who married Matilda Elizabeth Slayter (b. 1833) in August 1857 in
Kingston, Jamaica. Sidney Martin graduated in 1878 with a B.Sc. from
University College London,[2] where he was influenced by
Ray Lankester.[3] Sidney Martin studied medicine at the University College London, where he learned physiology and experimental pathology from
Sanderson, and qualified M.R.C.S. in 1882.[1] Martin then visited Vienna to study medicine and returned to England to take junior appointments at
Middlesex Hospital and at the
City of London Hospital for Diseases of the Chest (renamed in 1937 the London Chest Hospital and closed in 2015).[2] He graduated in 1883
M.B.,B.S. Lond. and received in 1884 his
M.D. (higher medical doctorate).[1] From 1883 onward he worked in physiology at the laboratory of
Schafer at University College London.[3] At the City of London Hospital for Diseases of the Chest he was an assistant physician from 1888 to 1890. At University College Hospital, he was an assistant physician from 1890 to 1898 and a full physician from 1898 until his death in 1924. From 1892 to 1900 he also held an appointment as assistant physician at
Brompton Hospital.[2] At University College London he was from 1895 to 1907 professor of pathology and, simultaneously, from 1902 to 1907 professor of clinical medicine; after the reorganisation of University College Hospital he held the same positions there. During WW I he worked in the
3rd London General Hospital.[2] From the summer of 1923 until his sudden death in 1924, he chaired the executive committee of the
Imperial Cancer Research Fund.[1]
^"Reports of Societies. Medical Society of London. Monday, March 1st, 1909. Sir Felix Semon in the Chair". BMJ. 1 (2514): 600. March 6, 1909.
JSTOR25281157.