Edwin Bennett Astwood (December 19, 1909 – February 17, 1976) was a Bermudian-American physiologist and endocrinologist: his research on endocrine system led to treatments for hyperthyroidism, first published in 1943 in what has subsequently been called a "landmark" paper.
[1] In 1949 he showed that methimazole was superior to alternative therapies for Graves' disease and this became a standard treatment for the condition.
[2] He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1949.
[3] In 1948, he was awarded the Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh.
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