Kenneth Gordon Lowe CVO FRCPE FRCP (1917–2010) was a Scottish physician who did pioneering research as a nephrologist and as a cardiologist.
After education at Arbroath High School, he studied medicine at the University of St Andrews and the Dundee Royal Infirmary (DRI).
There he worked with Graham Bull and Mark Joekes on Britain's first artificial kidney machine, invented by Kolff in the Netherlands.
Their pioneering studies on the pathology, outcome and treatment of acute renal failure were published in the Lancet and in Clinical Science.
[1] A member of the Medical Research Council committee that recommended reducing vitamin D content in children’s diet supplements designed to prevent rickets, he published (with three others) a paper entitled ‘The idiopathic hypercalcaemic syndromes of infancy’ (Lancet, 1954, 267, 101–10).