David Waterston (anatomist)

David Waterston OBE FRSE (25 August 1871–4 September 1942) was a 20th-century Scottish surgeon and anatomist.

[4] He studied for a general degree at the University of Edinburgh, the home town of his parents, graduating with an MA around 1890.

He gained his doctorate (MD) in 1898, and won the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh's Gold Medal in 1900.

His proposers were Sir William Turner, Ramsay Heatley Traquair, Robert Munro, and David Hepburn.

During this period he came to national fame in 1913 as the first person to discredit the Piltdown Man hoax which had been made public in December 1912.