German Sims Woodhead

Sir German Sims Woodhead, KBE FRSE PRMS LLD (29 April 1855 – 29 December 1921) was an English pathologist.

From 1885 to 1890 he worked as a lab assistant in Edinburgh University, living then at 6 Marchhall Crescent.

[5] In 1890, aged only 35, he became Director of the Conjoint Laboratories of the Royal Colleges of Physicians and of Surgeons in London.

In the First World War he was the Inspector of Government Laboratories serving all military hospitals.

He died at Aisthorpe Hall in Lincolnshire[7] on 29 December 1921 and is buried in Cambridge City Cemetery.