Sir George White Pickering, FRS (26 June 1904 – 3 September 1980) was an English medical doctor and academic.
[4] Pickering was the author of the book Creative Malady (1974).
[5] The book explores creativity and mental illness in the lives of Charles Darwin, Mary Baker Eddy, Sigmund Freud, Florence Nightingale, Marcel Proust and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
[6][7][8] In the 1957 Birthday Honours, it was announced that Pickering was to be made a Knight Bachelor in recognition of his role as Regius Professor of Medicine at the University of Oxford.
[9] On 16 July 1957, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace.