Peter Quilliam (pharmacologist)
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Juan Peter Quilliam OBE (20 November 1915 - 11 September 2003) was emeritus professor of pharmacology at the University of London.[1]
Juan Pete Quilliam (Peter) was born in Richmond on 20 November 1915, to Thomas Alfred and Caroline Maud (née Pavitt), both school teachers. He attended University College School and began studying at University College Hospital on a scholarship when he was 16. He obtained his MSc at University College London, and obtained an MSc. He qualified as a doctor in 1941 with honours and distinctions in forensic medicine and hygiene.[2]
In 1943 Quilliam joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. He was involved in researching several innovations of value to airmen.
After the war, he was a lecturer at King’s College and served a fellowship to the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore.[3] The Quilliams sailed back to the UK on the Queen Elizabeth, arriving in Southampton on 3 January 1950 en route to their home at 3 Kenver Avenue, London N12.